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Coaxial cable
Two types of coaxial cable are used for networking computers:
thicknet and thinnet. Thicknet is a heavy-gauge coaxial cable that is fairly
inflexible and requires special equipment to connect the computer to the network
backbone.
Installations of thicknet are dwindling but can still be found
in certain settings, such as in manufacturing companies. This is because this
thicker version of coaxial cable is well shielded and therefore doesn’t suffer
as much from interference as thinnet cable.
Thinnet was the cable at one time because of its relative ease
of installation and its low cost. Thinnet LANs employ a bus topology, where a
T-connector is attached to each computer’s network card. The computers are
then chained together using appropriate lengths of cable. Thinnet installations
require that each end of the network be terminated, and terminators are placed
on the downside T-connector of the computers that reside on either end of the
network.
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