> On 14 Jan 2000, Aidan Keady wrote:
>> Is there any speed advantage in using a hub and Cat-5 cabling instead of
> just hanging the machines off coax? (Apart from the fact that coax/Thin
> Ethernet is only for 10mb/s). I have three machines networked this way
> and it seems the cheapest solution.
If one section of cable breaks/develops noise it affect the computer
attached by it. If a piece of BNC develops a fault, the entire subnet
falls over.
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