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In <MJg11oHpv22X092yn@skypoint.com>, rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) writes:
>Here in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, "Simon Hampton" <simon.hampton@tvd.be>
>spake unto us, saying:
>
>>Please stop me going crazy with setting up a little peer network between
>>two computers using a co=ax cable.
>
>You using BNC connecters (the twisty coax connectors)?  I used to have
>my boxes connected in DOS using that, but I used tee-connectors on each
>box, and I put a terminator at each end as well (connected to the tee).
>
>Maybe that's not needed for a two-box thinnet connection...?

It's not. whatever termination is needed is card done for sure there,
but read on..

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>-Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@skypoint.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
>         OS/2 Warp 4 + Linux + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
>                 Feel lucky????  Update your software!

He also needs to know, if he wants to do the THIN net deal with the
coax, that in addition to the two 52 ohm BNC terminators, which have to
be on the far ends of the cable even if there are ten computers on tee
connectors over the whole lenght, there really is a minimal length
requirement between boxes!

My recall is that there shouldn't be anything less than 8 feet or so of
cable between any two tee connectors, right?

Now SOME of the network cards have a built-in terminator that can be
selected one way or another with jumpers or whatever.  They can, I
think, be used without the external 52 ohm BNC terminators, per my
recall.  The setup and booklet on the NIC card should tell you that...

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