Karl ponders:

>I am in the process of adding 100Base-T cards to a 937 and a 995/200.
>As I think about it, I struggle with the pros/cons of keeping the existing
>thinnet network and adding the 100Base-T as an additional network or
>replacing the existing thinnet network with the 100Base-T.
>
>I have some a couple of DTCs that still need 10Base whatever thinnet is
and
>the two 3000s could communicate using the existing thinnet.
>
>Has anyone done or considered something similar?

I have been ripping out the coax (BTW, it's 10Base2) every chance I get. 
I have used media converters (10BaseT to 10Base2) whereever I have a 
DTC that requires coax, unless I can replace the DTC with one that has 
an AUI port on it and then I can just use a 10BaseT transceiver.  My goal 
is to have zero feet of coax on my network, but that's purely my own 
idiosyncrasy, and I may have to allow a few feet of it for those DTC's 
that require it.  There has been some traffic on the list about 10BaseT 
being faster than 10Base2, but I can't vouch for that.

However, since 100BaseT is not going to be supported on 10Base2, then I 
suppose you're going to have to replace the coax, aren't you, at least 
if you want the HP3K on the 100BaseT network?  And who wouldn't?

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