Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Twisted pair Ethernet, Mounting mounted volumes Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 16:24:06 GMT References: <1991Apr21.035323.26965@macc.wisc.edu> <481@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991Apr21.132909.18543@macc.wisc.edu>, <1991Apr21.223849.21607@utstat.uucp> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Lines: 12 In article ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: I am trying to do a similar thing, namely connect two NeXTstations with one phone cord. Apparantly a hub is needed to allow a network of computers to send and recieve on a twisted-pair wire. If all you want to connect is two machines, then thin-wire is the way to go. Go get some coax, two BNC connectors and two Terminators (the non-Arnold Schwarzenegger type). It's a much simpler proposition. -- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche