Er...........I am not very good in Networks, so I need to ask. Is the BNC cable still in use and is it a cable widely used today? Or has everything become UTP?
2007-05-11 16:47:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
While I'm sure it is still in use (I have some old PCs down in the garage with BNC connectors {only}) but as to whether coax cable is widely used nowadays, I'd doubt it.
If you look at a few websites you will see 100 Mbps and higher speed kit being sold, with few/no ethernet hubs, and since the old coax cabling was not intended for 100/1000 Mbps, it will not be in use in many offices.
No PCs sold in the past 5 ? years will have had a BNC connector on them - those with a network card will have RJ45 socket and pretty much any cable for networking will be Cat5 / Cat5e / Cat 6 and you'd probably need to search the second hand market to find anything with a BNC connector.
Ethernet cards for the past few years have come with no BNC T-piece, and wide use of RJ45 means prices are lower as manufacturing has only one connector, not two (some old NICs had BNC + RJ45 or RJ45, and described on Wiki as being a 1990s card, so my 5 years is probably a low guess at the BNC not being popular any more).
I still have some kit suitable for using a 15-pin AUI connector, but that is at least 12 years old, and has not been used for a while!!
2007-05-17 03:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by Peter M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly utp, because it is easier to install and cheaper, but there is still a lot of coax around. BNC is really the connector that is on some coaxial cables.
2007-05-11 16:56:43 · answer #2 · answered by mrgone2a 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, a BNC cable is still used. Some people use UTP's, but BNC's are still used as an amatuer cable.
2007-05-11 16:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-17 10:30:13 · answer #4 · answered by kluesner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are ..yes, still in use, I still have a few companies thats run Netware on them, they are great in a way as one continueous cable, but most companies who uses Windows Server have to go UTP for the bandwidth.
2007-05-11 16:55:24 · answer #5 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋