RE: LAN PRO Card
BY: Ron Howard to All on Mon Apr 13 1998 03:02 am
 > I bought 2 Lan Pro Ethernet cards recently but without an accompanying 
coaxi
 > cable. So I bought the cable separately in a store in which the technician
 > just assembled it. Now, I couldn't make the two cards work, there seems to 
b
 > no connection. Then I saw a message here about terminators, do I need this 
t
 > make a connection using coax and how will I attach this and to where. I 
dont
 > want to use the other type of wiring in which I have to buy a hub or
 > something.
 > I'm NEW to this Networking thing.
You need to have a 50 Ohm terminator at each end of the cable. You will also 
need two "T" connectors for the computers. Like so:
              "T" Connector       RG58A/U Cable        "T" Connector 
       
Terminator-> O|---|---|_________________________________|---|---O 
-Terminator
                  |                                         |
              Computer 1                                Computer 2
Hope that this helps.
Charles
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