[Gllug] Upgrading thin ethernet....

[Liam Smit]

Hi Mike

> Just on the offchance that someone is aware of a solution to this...
> 
> I have a segment of 10 base 2 network cable (yes, coax) that's currently
> joining together two 10/100 base T segements. I'd really like to be able
> to get more than 10Mbps out of it (100 would be ideal, but anything
> fatser than 10 would be good), but physical constraints mean that
> replacing the coax with a cat5e/cat6 or fibre link isn't viable.

That is a serious space constraint if you can't run a length of cat5/6 
between the segments.

How about using WLAN to link the two segments? A point to point link 
with 802.11g would give you 54mbps.

> Is anyone aware of anything I can use to get more than 10Mbps of
> bandwidth out of the coax? There will only ever be the two stations
> attached to it, which might help. The only thing I know of is from
> http://www.coaxsys.com/, who claim to have a product capable of getting
> 100Mbps out, but they're in the US, and don't bother replying to emails
> asking how one might buy the product, so I'm hoping there's a better
> company out there....

Not really. I'm really racking my brains here to try and recall if you 
can replace thin ethernet with thick ethernet in some easy way. But the 
last time I played with a 10mbps coax network was probably late 20th 
century...

cheers
Liam
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