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Re: ethernet cards and cable connection
???@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Chapman)
Thu Apr 18 17:08:56 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:33:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Randy Chapman <chapman@cs.washington.edu>
To: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen@math.msu.edu>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604181752.NAA10714@chaos>
Thinnet cable is *NOT* the same as your TV cable!! It looks the same, has
the same kind of connectors, but is a quite different resistance
(if I remember my terms right =) One is 75ohm, the other is 50.
I forget which is which. You should be able to quickly find out
by seeing what they are selling as TV antenna cable at Radio Shack.
--randy (hoping memory serves well)
On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> I have a high speed commercially provided internet connection. It runs
> on the same cable as my cable TV. I presume that the signals are
> carried at different frequencies.
> It seems to work fine using a cheap NE2000 ethernet card on my linux
> box, but when I try a PCI card--I have tried SMC 8432 and 3COM 590 --
> things don't work. So, I presume that it there some 'frequency
> filtering' going on with the NE2000 clone which is not going on with the
> other cards. I would like to understand this. Can anyone suggest some
> literature related to this kind of thing. The other cards work fine on
> my local net.
>
> Thanks,
> -Sheldon
>
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