From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01a001c37983$a440e960$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <3F625DCA.5040100@ameritech.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Old (hardware) are hard to break MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:14:35 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33e09108-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Well, I'm not cleaning this floor every few minutes to manage the > electron spill, so I'd better get the terminator. I don't think my > mop can handle electrons, anyway.... they won't spill. you'll wind up with a nasty SWR problem. coax must alway be terminated correctly, so chain things together you stick a T connector on each machine and at the ends of the coax you screw on 50 ohm terminators. i have seen bad things happen with unterminated coax. > I found a place that sells 50ohm BNC -> 10baseT adapters online, > but I do have one last question. Do i *need* a cable connecting the > T to the BNC? I'm sure this is probably desirable, but is it > absolutely necessary? I'm just trying to minimize the connections. i'm a bit confused, but read what i said above. you got a URL for the adapter?