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In article <kKbVDCAjKV63EwgH@urban75.demon.co.uk>, ms
<mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>Given the choice of forking out for a hub thingy and changing all the
>cables or getting a transceiver thingy, is the extra speed worth the
>extra investment?

Depends what you or your other users are doing (the bandwidth is shared
on a non-switched hub), & maybe not if you/your users are not shunting
lots of data around but for ghosting (for instance) even with a very
basic (non switching) 100baseT hub that won't do duplex I'm getting
almost 100mbits per sec. Non 100baseT switching hubs are relatively
cheap

In article <37ed2a8f.3713696@news.easynet.co.uk>, David Henniker
<david.henniker@easynetDOTco.uk> writes
>Not long ago, on Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:25:57 +0100, "Alan R. Winstanley"
><alan@epemag.demon.co.uk> shared these inspired thoughts with us all:

>>The 3COM PC Card has both a BNC (co-ax) port and an RJ45 phone-style
>>jack (twisted pair), hence Combo. It's pricey (99.00) but W98 woke up
>>and found it straight away.

The big advantage of 3com cards is most operating systems 'come' with
built in drivers for almost all cards (right back as far as WFWG)

>>
>I had to install the driver from an *.exe file on a floppy, as far as
>I can remember...

Though you can usually install updated drivers (with extra features)
from a floppy or from the 3com site.
I had a problem installing later drivers on top of the existing ones. If
you are tempted to do this, I think its better to remove the old driver
*before* installing the new ones. YMMV. Read the readme on the last disk
(usually)

-- 
John Chapple