What is this and how can I possibly use it? [PICS]

[Trygve]

It's a small Cabletron (now Enterasys) modular manageable 10bt hub (router). I had more than a dozen larger versions of that series plus a lot of fibre-optic blades a while back and couldn't give 'em away.

 

[spidey07]

correction,

after looking further at the pics that is indeed an ethernet hub. Very usable at home if you just need a hub.

http://www.enterasys.com/support/manuals/hardware/0719_04.pdf

problem is a 20 dollar switch from walmart is going to be 100 times faster.

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Beau
Token ring switch

Cabletron's TPMIM (Twisted Pair Media Interface Module) series blades are 10bt, not token ring. The token ring blades start with TRMIM.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: Beau
Token ring switch

Cabletron's TPMIM (Twisted Pair Media Interface Module) series blades are 10bt, not token ring. The token ring blades start with TRMIM.

hehe... whoops... guess I should have enlarged the photo to read the module numbers. I was just going off the case model number.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: cybpnk

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Sell it on eBay. You'd probably make a nice profit

that sounds like the best way to go

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: spidey07
correction,

after looking further at the pics that is indeed an ethernet hub. Very usable at home if you just need a hub.

http://www.enterasys.com/support/manuals/hardware/0719_04.pdf

problem is a 20 dollar switch from walmart is going to be 100 times faster.

Heh, oh well. As long as it works. Will this be okay for lanning?
-- mrcodedude

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: spidey07
correction,

after looking further at the pics that is indeed an ethernet hub. Very usable at home if you just need a hub.

http://www.enterasys.com/support/manuals/hardware/0719_04.pdf

problem is a 20 dollar switch from walmart is going to be 100 times faster.

Heh, oh well. As long as it works. Will this be okay for lanning?
-- mrcodedude

No.

And i thought it was a network bridge.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Looks like a router/hub of some sort. Notice that it's 240v equipment. Odd.

240v? That looks like a standard power cable like on the back of a computer to me...

*Smacks head* Oops... looks like it's both I was reading the right side instead of the left.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Damn, oh well. What can I do with this, assuming I don't put it on eBay.
-- mrcodedude

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Damn, oh well. What can I do with this, assuming I don't put it on eBay.
-- mrcodedude

It's a hub. You can network a few dozen computers together with it if you want. It'll work with standard ethernet cards, though only at 10Mbps. Most people don't saturate their home networks anyway, so this may not be a problem for you.

It's bigger, noisier, and slower than anything you'd buy today, but it has flashing lights and it's manageable, so you can have fun with that.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Damn, oh well. What can I do with this, assuming I don't put it on eBay.
-- mrcodedude

It's a hub. You can network a few dozen computers together with it if you want. It'll work with standard ethernet cards, though only at 10Mbps. Most people don't saturate their home networks anyway, so this may not be a problem for you.

It's bigger, noisier, and slower than anything you'd buy today, but it has flashing lights and it's manageable, so you can have fun with that.

FLASHING LIGHTS!
-- mrcodedude

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Damn, oh well. What can I do with this, assuming I don't put it on eBay.
-- mrcodedude

It's a hub. You can network a few dozen computers together with it if you want. It'll work with standard ethernet cards, though only at 10Mbps. Most people don't saturate their home networks anyway, so this may not be a problem for you.

It's bigger, noisier, and slower than anything you'd buy today, but it has flashing lights and it's manageable, so you can have fun with that.

FLASHING LIGHTS!
-- mrcodedude

rofl.. somehow your response made me burst out in laughter in the middle of the night by myself.. lol..



FLASHING LIGHTS!!

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: Beau
Token ring switch

Cabletron's TPMIM (Twisted Pair Media Interface Module) series blades are 10bt, not token ring. The token ring blades start with TRMIM.

Won't this hub (I think we used to call them MAUs) work with Token Ring if you have the proper baluns?

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: Beau
Token ring switch

Cabletron's TPMIM (Twisted Pair Media Interface Module) series blades are 10bt, not token ring. The token ring blades start with TRMIM.

Won't this hub (I think we used to call them MAUs) work with Token Ring if you have the proper baluns?

No. Token ring connectors do include RJ-45, but it's an entirely different signalling scheme. (And the pinouts are different, too.)

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Trygve
No. Token ring connectors do include RJ-45, but it's an entirely different signalling scheme. (And the pinouts are different, too.)

Shows you how much I remember from the mid-eightied!
I think I still have a couple of 16/4 Token Ring adapter cards packed away in the basement. On of them is even for an MCA IBM PC.

 

[Garion]

So it's really old hub that would probably do fine for a home PC. Only catch - It's probably going to be so loud that it'll keep the neighbors up and it's going to use up enough electricity to pay for a cheapo Linksys 100BaseT switch in about 6 months. Don't bother. Old junk like this just isn't worth using anymore.

- G