Wanted to give a quick answer:  AUI cables resemble "yellow garden
hose", I'd use 10BaseT or 10Base2 before that stuff.  It's thick, heavy,
and a pain.

  I have a 10Base2 LAN here, works fine, with 2 8-port hubs for
visitors.  The handiest thing I've found for 10Base2 is the "F" style
connector for plugging into your net card ("NIC"), instead of a "T"
type:

  The Stem of the "F" goes into the NIC, the RG-58 50-ohm cables then
both come in / leave from the same direction.

  The reason this is handy is that you no longer have to block something
else with coax on both sides (i.e. you cannot plug in a printer without
an extra hand to hold the LAN cable out of your way.)  All Electronics
IIRC has these for $1.25 or $1 in quantity, I'm considering getting
about 20 and getting rid of my "T" connectors <G>

  It is easier to upgrade 10BaseT installations to 100BaseT, admittedly
- (If you're renting and need to run 10 computers' Cat 5 cables hung
from the side of the hallway to a big hub, imagine the look on the
landlord's face.)  When I first got into networking machines, 100BaseT
wasn't dreamed of yet, having a mix can work really well;  Printing is
plenty fast here (I put a buffer on the old dot matrix printers to speed
up the print server, the laser doesn't need it.)

  I agree fully that identical NICs is a good idea (Get spares if you
can, not that they go bad, but so visiting machines or new machines can
drop on the LAN quickly.)

  If I were starting new, I'd go with 100BaseT if affordable, or 10BaseT
if not, so you can re-use cabling ($10 for NICs for 10BaseT isn't bad.)

  Mark

wouter van ooijen / floortje hanneman wrote:
>
> Is there an equivalent "0-modem" possibility for transciever
> connections (those D15 connectors with the shifting locks)?
>
> regards,
> Wouter
>
> <snipped>