Hello Dave!
21 Oct 97 22:34, Dave Shiner wrote to Jonathan Hunter:
 MB> JH>> I've got three Arcnet cards (SMC) lying around here, that
 MB> JH>> I'm itching to play with - just for fun :-)
 DS> For 3 stations you'll need what is known as a "passive hub".  It's
 DS> basically 4 93ohm resisters w/one lead soldered together to form an X
 DS> shape and the other leads each go to the center conductor of a BNC
 DS> female end.  Then connect all the BNC shells together (usually in a
 DS> metal box) and you have a hub. Looks like this:
Ahhahah!!!!!! :-))
I have one of those very things lying around here in my computer junk room. 
I'd always wondered what on earth it was, and now I know!!! :-)
 DS> You can hook up 4 stations to this, for more than 4 you're supposed to
 DS>  buy an "active hub".  At that point I would replace everything
 DS> w/10baseT Ethernet!  It should work w/any coax for short distances.
I've only got 4 Arcnet cards, so this looks like it'll work out perfectly! 
)
Jonathan 
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