Just recently, I received some Arcnet cards (Puredata PDI508+) and an Active 
Hub.. after looking through the manuals, the Internet and Usenet newsgroups.. 
I have a couple of questions before I get a couple of my friend's computer 
together and hook them up..
I read an Arcnet FAQ and the person who wrote the faq said that one can use 
other cables besides the preferred coaxial cable (which is RG-62 93 Ohm), 
like a TV antenna cable (RG-59 75 Ohm).  Since those RG-59 cables can be 
easily obtain, I'm thinking of taking the TV adapters off the ends and put 
BNC connectors.  I looked around for the BNC male connectors, which cost $7 a 
piece, so I surfed around the net thinking that there's only 1 kind of BNC 
connector, but instead there's places that sells BNC connectors for RG-58, 
RG-59 and RG-62 cables.
What I want to know is is there different BNC connectors for different cables 
or is there only 1 kind that will work for all the cables??
The Arcnet cards I have are the 2.5 Mbps ones.  Let's say I hook up a server 
computer to the active hub and 4 client computers to the same hub in STAR 
topology.  The 4 client computers at the same time downloads a file (all 4 
computers downloading the same file), how fast would the transfer speed be?
Lastly, this question is for the "fun" side of networking..
Can these cards handle network gaming (Quake, C&C) ? :)
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