Hey fellow Canuck, Either system would work in this case. You can buy hubs that have one BNC port and say 24 10Base T connections. (Don't forget the coax system loops though every computer and needs a terminator resistor at each end of the chain. It would only require one connection to the hub, if you wanted to support 10BT connections). For that small of a system, no hub would be required at all, for an all coax solution. NOTE: The only problem with an all coax solution, is that if the coax goes open any where, ie, a student dislodges a cable, the entire network goes down. That is why I like 10BT, if one cable gets damaged,etc. it doesn't take down the entire network. > Dear Friends, > > I'm putting together a small network, for classroom use, no > essential data transfer, maximum distance to hub 5 meters ( about > 15 feet), using cheap NE2000 clone cards, 15 machine max. > > My question is whether in the above situation there would be a > great difference between using the RJ-245 10Base-T connection > and cabling, and the BNC 10Base2 port. Do cheap hubs have both > connections? Can I combine cable types? > > many TIA, > > Michael Beechey, a Canuck in Sucre, Bolivia > Dale Laluk Design Manager, Lunar Communications P.O. Box 569, Hudson's Hope, B.C. V0C 1V0 250-783-5365 or Fax 250-783-5790 PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download on our web site - visit our download page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html