Thicknet is also referred as 10base5 systems where 10 means 10mbps speed.
Coaxial cable types thinnet and thicknet.
Thinnet on the other hand uses a thinner type of coaxial cable known as radio grade 58 which is similar to the radio grade 6 cable used for cable tv.
Today my topic is about two early ethernet technologies.
Thinnet is also referred as 10base2 where 2.
The three main types of media found on lans include coaxial cable twisted pair and fiber optics.
Bandwidth the official name for thicknet 10base5 indicates that the technology supports a data transfer speed or bandwidth of up 10 megabits per second and a maximum segment length of 500.
10base2 also known as cheapernet thin ethernet thinnet and thinwire is a variant of ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with bnc connectors to build a local area network.
Coaxial cabling thicknet and thinnet while network cabling may not be the most exciting topic in the world you ll definitely need to understand the basics of different lan media.
Rg 8 u cable is used as thick cable in thicknet based lan network.
10base5 also known as thick ethernet or thicknet was the first commercially available variant of ethernet the technology was standardized in 1982 as ieee 802 3.
Thicknet and thinnet and the structure of coaxial cable type of coaxial cables and their connectors.
Base means baseband and 5 denotes 500 meter max.