Network question. Help

[bauerbrazil]

I am thinking about assembling a network in the vacations to play UT. I possess an old network that uses coaxial cable. I want to know if I must use a HUB or if with just the network cards is possible to assemble a network for 10 people?

Thanks.

 

[snow patrol]

If you want to assemble a network for 10 people you should go for the following:

10+ port fast ethernet hub
10 10/100Mbps PCI adapter NICs
10 Cat5 UTP cables

Just install a NIC on each machine, and run a CAT5 cable from each NIC to the hub. Then configure the network (there are plenty of help guides out there) and you're ready to roll

 

[Czar]

Change that to 10/100 fast ethernet switch, a 10-16 port, costs alot but million times better.

But you can use choax, it just realy sucks, no hub needed, just 9 choax coards, 10 T peaces and 2 end peaces.

 

[bauerbrazil]

<< But you can use choax, it just realy sucks, no hub needed, just 9 choax coards, 10 T peaces and 2 end peaces. >>



It really sucks???

 

[whalen]

http://arstechnica.com/guide/networking/installation-1.html

 

[Oyeve]

Yeah, coax sucks big time! Can you even get new cards with coax? Make sure you ground those suckers! I remember back in the coax heyday, if they weren't grounded properly and you touche to computer chasis', you could get a hell of a shock! hehehe....computing was fun back then.

 

[bauerbrazil]

Could anyone advice me about good and cheap HUBs???

 

[samgau]

D-link makes good cheap hubs...
I have the 8 port+Bnc, its 10Mbit only but it was fine for a 5 machine Lan Party..

 

[roc919]

Yeah, going coax would hamper your gaming performance...BIGTIME. A cheap hub would be one of those DLink or LinkSys hubs.

 

[kuk]

I'm going to write this in portuguese so it's easier for bauerbrazil to understand ... I think ...

Bom, coaxial &eacute; um transtorno constante. Minha rede aqui em casa cai (fisicamente) toda a hora. Amanh&atilde; eu j&aacute; vou estar montando uma rede com RJ45, por&eacute;m como s&oacute; s&atilde;o dois computadores, n&atilde;o h&aacute; necessidade de HUB. Infelizmente, para mais de 2 micros, HUBs s&atilde;o necess&aacute;rios, e no Brasil ainda s&atilde;o meio caros. Vc vai desembolsar mais de 250 reais, certamente. Na internet, eu vi este da Trellis a venda (R$335,00). S&atilde;o 8 portas, mas roda a 100Mb/s (isso reflete numa velocidade efetiva de ~6-7 MB/s). Fuja de lojas como a Plug&amp;Use ... eles extorquem todo o seu dinheiro; um hub de qualidade n&atilde;o sai por menos de 600 reais.

Se precisar de mais informa&ccedil;&otilde;es, &eacute; s&oacute; dar um toque.

And for those who didn't understand, it's none of your business

 

[roc919]

Ummm...can someone translate

 

[kuk]

Hmm, this will be fun ... roc919, translate the text that I wrote, just to see what you think is happening

 

[bauerbrazil]

Ae Kuk, valeu cara.

And thank you all.