"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and of course there's 10Base2 (Coax, Thinnet, RG-58) and 10Base5 (ThickNet), but those are outdated...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