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Old BNC network will not respond to CAT5
New cards is where I was heading myself. This particular network works as a point-of-sale operation, which leaves me with limited maintenance windows. No problem for me to go after closing but getting the owner to hang around is a problem. I was hoping it might be a simple setting somewhere, but... -
Old BNC network will not respond to CAT5
I have no idea how old the cards are. The system is in since 1999 (the Win2k machine was added recently replacing an older server and it looks like they used the old NIC). The fact that they installed a coax network on Win95 as late as 99 would suggest that the supplier was offloading some old... -
Old BNC network will not respond to CAT5
I have 3 machines networked using BNC coax cabling. Each machine has a Realtek RTL8029 PCI NIC. These are combo cards which means I should be able to replace the coax with CAT5, right? I wired up CAT5 cable to each machine through a Netgear 10/100 switch. The lights all come on on the switch...
