[TriLUG] Looking for surplus base-2 ethernet cable

Brian McCullough bdmc at bdmcc-us.com
Sun Feb 20 17:14:45 EST 2005


On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:20:59PM -0500, James Brigman wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
> 
> >Hi Y'all,
> > So yeah, I'm wondering if anyone knows where I might be able to pick up
> >some coax ethernet cables, the kind with the BNC connections..  I'm 
> >actually
> >not using that kind of ethernet anywhere; I just need the BNC cables and
> >figured that'd be a good source..  So, anyone know where I could find some
> >cheap?
> >
> > 
> >
> Dude...you mean the OLD ethernet backbone stuff? That fat orange cable 
> you would tap into with the special tapping transceiver? Man, that stuff 
> has been GONE for over 15 years now.

No, he actually means the skinny black coax.  What you are thinking of
has the AUI connectors.




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