[RndTbl] Really old MTS Internet drop?

[Hartmut W Sager]

I do consider it quite possible that this is simply a 10Base-2 NIC, and
that MTS supplied such NIC's at one time (to match some ancient DSL modem),
even though I don't distinctly remember this from my MTS past.  A hub isn't
needed - 10Base-2 has all the stations (computers, etc.) along a linear
cable with T-connectors at each of them, even the two end units, and a
terminating resistor on the otherwise open-ended T-connector at each of the
two ends.

Man, I hated wiring the connectors onto those 10Base-2 cables!  Anyone out
there old enough to have handled the even older 10Base-5 stuff?  You gotta
love RJ-45!

Hartmut Sager


On 5 February 2014 09:50, Colin Stanners <cstanners at gmail.com> wrote:

> Likely: PC TV-capture card, or they're really confusing an ethernet cable.
> Very unlikely: ancient 10base-2 NIC to a hub somewhere with their DSL
> modem.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Friends of my parents have had MTS Internet service for a decade or more
>> (probably more).
>>
>> They told me that they have a coax cable in the room with their computer
>> (an IBM Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, to give you an idea of the age of this setup;
>> they had MTS Internet service before that in an older computer) AND that
>> this coax cable plugs directly into their PC.Has anyone seen this sort of
>> setup? I didn't look at it myself; this is just what I got from them over
>> the phone just now.
>>
>> Are they mistaken, or did MTS in the past provide a PC card with a coax
>> connector for Internet access? It's possible that they didn't recognize an
>> Ethernet cable, but I did explicitly ask if it was connected to the
>> computer with a screw-on type connector which they confirmed it was.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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