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Re: Home network
- To: "Geovanny M. Ortiz" <o-n-a@bridge.net>
- Subject: Re: Home network
- From: Randal Whittle <rwhittle@usa.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:04:44 -0700
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At 03:40 PM 6/26/97 -0400, Geovanny M. Ortiz wrote:
>At the office I connect to the office network using windows 95 and twisted
>pair cables connected to a hub. I'm trying to connect my two computers at
>home using win95 and a coax cable connecting directly both computer, but
>the computers won't communicate. Do I need to put a T connector and a
>terminator at both ends of the coax cable?
Yes. There has to be a T-connector on every coax port that you intend to
have as part of the network, and where the cable is not meant to continue,
you must have a terminator on the other part of the T.
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Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California