NC> You will need for any 10Base2 lan
 NC> n x ethernet card (You've got these)
 NC> n x T piece
 NC> n-1 x 50ohm coax
 NC> 2 x 50 ohm terminator
 NC> where n is the number of PCs.
 NC> Place a card in each PC. Place a T piece on each card. Couple the wires
 NC> up between the PCs. Place a terminator on the ends of the resultant
 NC> "daisy chain" of machines.
 NC>    X-+-=========-+-X
 NC>      |           |
 NC>      PC          PC
 NC> where -+-
 NC>        |
 NC> is a T piece and X is the terminator and ====== is the coax.
 NC> You can't make it work by just plugging the coax into the cards.
 RH>> I dont want to use the other type of wiring in which I have to buy a
 RH>> hub
 NC> or something.
 NC> Hubs and cat5/RJ45 wiring are more resilient and more easily expandable
 NC> but are generally overkill for a home network (says he with a cat5
 NC> wired 16 meg Token Ring LAN at home.)
 RH>> I'm NEW to this Networking thing.
 NC> We all started somewhere. Look at me. You could have hit me around the
 NC> head with a router 2 years ago and I wouldn't have known what hit me.
 NC> I'm a network engineer now. (Quite a good one so I'm told as well.)
 In that case I have to stick around this echo, I need info like this for
 starters.
 Thanks and BTW, the terminator is the answer, its the missing part in the
 setup.
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