Subj : Advice needed!
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Michael Grant
Date : Fri Apr 06 2001 12:47 am

Hello Roy.

05 Apr 01 23:01, you wrote to me:

 MW>> 2 computers, you then add a 2nd terminator to the 2nd computers
 MW>> T. You can't have any coax or T open ended. They need to either
 MW>> be connected to coax or a terminator.

 RT> There's a possible exception to this,  though.  *IF* the network cards
 RT> make any provision for terminating themselves,  then you don't need
 RT> either the T connectors or the terminators.

I doubt it... they seem to be pretty generic type cards... One came installed 
into his son's computer, which is an older Packard Bell P-166, the other came 
installed into an IPC PII-266. Worse comes to worse, I can check the 
documentation available on those company's websites.

If they /are/ self terminating, will it hurt things to add terminators and T 
connectors anyways?


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