each cable has a limit of 325 ft or 100 meters. Should be plenty for a
home network :D
As for protocol I'd recommend I.P. While IPX is faster, you probably
won't notice a difference and you'll be ready for the Internet when you
connect (though your I.P. address will need to change when that happens)
Frank
Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> Each cable can be as long as the limit (I forget what it is, but it's over
> 100 feet because I use a 100ft cable regularily (laptop in bed :) )
>
> The limit is only between hops - i.e. nic to hub.
>
> Alos, you picture is wrong. Each machine plugs into the hub, so think of a
> star or wagon wheel. The hub is the center and everything connects to
> it. The slower PC will NOT slkow down the others.
>
> BTW, there is no magic here. A simple hub is really just joing all the
> wires together. Every packet gets sent out to evey machine connected to
> the hub (watch the lights on the hub and the nics). It's your software
> sttings (IP and netmark) that determine who pays attention to the packets.
>
> You will have a lot of fun with this stuff :)
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote:
>
> > Dear Frank,
> >
> > Great. I've gotten a lot of helpful answers to this question.
> > Again, the Ovislink price is perfect! Would I be better with the ISA or
> > PCI NIC's? Or would it matter? There is a $28 Harmony 4-port hub.
> > That would be fine (brand doesn't matter to me as long as it's not
> > trash) and save some money. So, if I use 3 of the 10/100mb 64bit PCI
> > hubs ($11 each for $33), one Harmony 4port hub ($28), 2 25 feet cables,
> > 1 50 footer (or would it be ok to go from one to one to one, with only 2
> > 25 feet cables, or have 2 of those then 1 50 footer to go from the last
> > to the first. see diagram below.
> >
> > A---(25ft cable)-----B-------(25ft cable)---------C
> > -------------(50ft cableconnecting A and C)-------
> >
> > Anyway, total cost before tax and all that junk is a bit over $70,
> > just as Paul predicted.
> > I don't need fast performance, but if it bogs down machine B... (A is
> > my 450PIII linux machine, B is a 333 k6-2 W98, C is old and slow, a
> > 75mghz P75 but they won't let me make it linux. :-) The order can be
> > switched of course I'm assuming.
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