"BaseT"

[crazychicken]

What does "baseT" mean as in 10 base T and 100baseT.

Also, aren't things either 10baseT or 10/100? someone said that their hub was 100 only , could not support 10, whassup w/ that?

lmk

david

 

[Russ]

Twisted. Yes, there are 100Base only hubs.

Russ, NCNE

 

[spidey07]

Base = Baseband
T=twisted pair

Flavors of ethernet are
10 Base-X (where X is a descriptor of the physical layer media)
100 Base-X (normall Fx or Tx. this is what people call 100 meg ethernet...yeah I know there is also 100-VGany and 100-Base-T4 but nobody uses it)
1000 Base-X (gigabit ethernet. LX and SX varieties on fiber and T for cat5 twisted pair)
10000 Base-X (it is coming, probably 1st quarter 2002)

hope this helps!

ps - when a port or card is 10/100 it is capable of autonegotiating max thruput with the choices being - 100/full, 100/half, 10/full, 10/half. Most hubs only support 10 or 100 but not both unless it is an autosensing hub (god awful piece of nonsense network gear designed to fool people)

 

[spidey07]

Base = Baseband
T=twisted pair

Flavors of ethernet are
10 Base-X (where X is a descriptor of the physical layer media)
100 Base-X (normall Fx or Tx. this is what people call 100 meg ethernet...yeah I know there is also 100-VGany and 100-Base-T4 but nobody uses it)
1000 Base-X (gigabit ethernet. LX and SX varieties on fiber and T for cat5 twisted pair)
10000 Base-X (it is coming, probably 1st quarter 2002)

hope this helps!

ps - when a port or card is 10/100 it is capable of autonegotiating max thruput with the choices being - 100/full, 100/half, 10/full, 10/half. Most hubs only support 10 or 100 but not both unless it is an autosensing hub (god awful piece of nonsense network gear designed to fool people)

 

[spidey07]

Alright! so that's how a double post happens

🙂

 

[Russ]

That's okay, it was worth reading twice.😀

Russ, NCNE

 

[Wik]

You think double posts are bad look what at the goof up in this post and the reason for it was funny as hell🙂

Funny Multi-post

 

[esung]

actually, I do have a few 100BaseT4 cards lying around.. even couple gigabit card that's T4 (basically use all 4 pairs of wire..)
and of course there's 10Base2 (Coax, Thinnet, RG-58) and 10Base5 (ThickNet), but those are outdated...

 

[crazychicken]

so if i have a 100baseT hub and i run a 10baseT card to it, will it work?
also, if i run a 100baseT card to a 10baseT hub, it will just run at the slower speed right??

lmk

david
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[Shadow07]

Most of the newer devices will run at either mode. However, I know that some hubs and NIC's (older ones) do not support 10baseT. However, I seriously doubt you will ever experience this. Like I said, most, if not all, support 10/100baseT.

 

[Russ]

<< so if i have a 100baseT hub and i run a 10baseT card to it, will it work? >>



No, it won't. I have two 100Base only hubs (hey, they were dirt cheap and are NOT serving in critical capacities🙂), in my network and they will not work with 10BaseT cards. Fine with 10/100.

Russ, NCNE