🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:49:00 -0500, Richard Steiner wrote:

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



You absolutely need the T-bars and terminators for this to work on any kind
of a coax LAN!  The NICs have no termination.






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