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In article <3kkDAHACULwwEwNj@davita.demon.co.uk>
           David@davita.demon.co.uk "David Reid" writes:

> I notice that the Etherlink card has a D connector (15 way?) as well as 
> the BNC connector. Is it an alternative (better?) way of connecting the 
> two cards? Assuming that I use the BNC connectors, why are the T-pieces 
> and 50ohm loads necessary? Why not just put the end of the cable
> straight onto the coax?


Well --- it's not supposed to work without the T-piece and terminator due
to the effect of an unbalanced load. Cable is about 40-50p a metre and the
various bits and pieces should be a couple of quid each on average. 
Connecting two PCs with about 5 metres of cable should cost about 15 quid
plus the network cards.

I *think* that for the other connection option you need some additional 
bits of cabling whatsits which may make it more complicated and/or 
expensive, but I'm willing to be better-informed on this.

If Win311 recognises your card and the IRQ is set up OK then it should 
be easy enough to get this set up. Remember that you have to explicitly 
share your drives using the File Manager Disk menu option before they 
can be read on the other machine. You have to select Connect Network 
Drive under the same menu option to pick up the shared drive. 

Hope it works


-- 
leo