Jim Phillips wrote:
>... one
>of my vendors, he asked to see the topology.  As soon as he saw the
>coax, he said there's the problem.  According to him, 10Base2 cannot
>run as fast as 10BaseT (he said it, not me!),
>
>10Base2 and 10Base T both operate at 10Mbps and would encounter the same
>limitations of collisions, etc.  One difference would be in the case where
>the 10BaseT switching hub port and the 10BaseT transceiver support full
>duplex operation, allowing a composite 20Mbps.  Other differences exist in
>the topology limits for number of hops between nodes on the network.  Often
>elimination of the 10Base2 connections simplify the topology and can remove
>existing hop limit problems.
>
>-- dave ([log in to unmask])