If you use RJ-45 (twisted pair) then you will need a hub to connect more
than two computers together. With coaxial cable, you use a T BNC connector
on each NIC and "daisy chain" the wires from computer to computer - no hub
is needed, but you do need to terminate the end computers with a 50 ohm BNC
terminator. Coax is simpler in that no hub is needed, but any break or bad
connection will likely prevent the entire network from working properly.
Twisted pairs with a hub will disable only the computer that has the bad
connection.

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Peter Shkabara, P.E.
Computer Science Instructor
Rogue Community College
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-----Original Message-----
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?

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