Re: FACSNet ->10baseT

Joseph Webster (J.Webster@centenary.usyd.edu.AU)
Wed, 04 Oct 1995 08:43:34 +1100

At 02:50 PM 3/10/95 +0100, Ray Hicks wrote:
>Hi,
>Does anyone have experience of, or information on connecting a set of
>HP's (3 in my case) to the outside world via twisted pair ethernet.
>The three HP's are already linked using thin coaxial cable. Is it possible
>to plug both cable types into one interface board (on say a mac)
>and have both arms talk to each other, or is there a transducer that
>would match the signals?

In a very similar situation we use an 8-port 10-base-T hub that has a BNC
connector on the back to act as a transducer between the HPs (10-base-2)
and the rest of our network (10-base-T with RJ45 connectors).
When this was set up over two years ago, the cheapest hub was around five
hundred Australian dollars; there are much cheaper hubs available now, some
under two hundred Australian.

I have not yet found a hub with the BNC connector that has less than
eight RJ45 ports.

If you particularly want to connect the HPs to a Mac rather than to a wider
network, it should be possible to get a 10-base-2 transducer for the Mac
ethernet port, but probably not both types of connection together.

Joseph.

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