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| Thread ID: 25966 | 2002-10-16 05:15:00 | Adding a incompatible PC link to a network.. | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 89809 | 2002-10-16 05:15:00 | I need to add a PC onto our coax cabled network, but the new (to us) PC has a phone style plastic plug, incompatible with the metal belinglee? coax metal plugs. Worse still, this PC replaces one that is the centre of the cabled network, so there is a Tee peice at the rear of the replaced PC with two coax leads connected to it. Any idea how to add the incompatible PC to the network? Thanks....John. |
John W (523) | ||
| 89810 | 2002-10-16 06:00:00 | easy way....change the lan card to a combo RJ-45/BNC one. hard way- change the whole network to RJ-45. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 89811 | 2002-10-16 07:57:00 | OK, what I didnt mention is the new PC is a Laptop, with a PCMCIA card Modem/Network card. This sits at the centre of the network, with the other two desktop 20M away, on either side. | John W (523) | ||
| 89812 | 2002-10-16 08:59:00 | depending on the other pc's i'd be inclined to upgrade the whole network. otherwise get a BNC network card for the laptop. can you get BNC to RJ hubs?? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 89813 | 2002-10-16 09:15:00 | John W, You could upgrade your network with a Dlink DE-809TC/N 9-PORT 10BT Unmanaged Ethernet Mini Hub 1 BNC PORT, check with your local supplier or check prices etc with XP Computer Limited (www.xpc.co.nz) and contacts (www.xpc.co.nz). Note you're currently probably only running 10Mb network - which isn't a problem in itself... the comments made in earlier post re update network could see you move to 100Mb. Anyway post back if we can help you any more. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 89814 | 2002-10-16 19:58:00 | Hey guys, since he use to have a T connection, doesn't mean that he was once using a Token Ring protocol? | roofus (483) | ||
| 89815 | 2002-10-17 03:17:00 | There are hubs which have one BNC and a number of RJ45 sockets. I've got adapters/tranceivers which go from the D15P on a tap on thick ethernet cable to BNC or RJ45, but I don't think that they would work conneced backtoback (The could be connected with a bit of jiggery :D ) A quick and dirty solution would be a second card (with the RJ45) in one of the other computers and run a router programme in it. roofus: T-adaptors don't mean token ring ... Token Ring uses 75ohm (RG-62) cable in a star configuration. 10Base-2 uses 50om (RG58-c) cable in a chain |
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