What can i call a network when am using coaxile cable? because when UTP and RJ 45 is used its called Ethernet

Answer 1

You're probably still sitting on an ethernet network. Ethernet was originally designed for and implemented on coaxial networks.

What you would call your network in this case is depends on the cables themselves. The only two coaxial ethernet implementations to really hit it off for home use were 10BASE2 and 10BASE5, "thinnet" and "thicknet" respectively, in colloquial terms.

Take a look at your cables and check for yourself. 10BASE2 "thinnet" runs on cables of roughly the same diameter as your regular UTP cable, somewhere around a fifth of an inch, while 10BASE5 "thicknet" runs on cables with diameters of slightly thicker than a third of an inch.

Answer 2

Technically, it's still (probably) ethernet. I say probably because the data link protocol (ethernet) sits on top of and is independent of the hardware protocol (with UTP cabling this is probably 100baseTX). Ten years ago my office was wired with 10base2 (coaxial cable with BNC connectors run in series), and it was an ethernet network.

To answer your question though, you could call it what it is, "10base2" or another name for it is "thinnet".

Answer 3

another old time term is thicknet or thinnet depending on the type of coax

Answer 4

Token ring/BNC