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What would a 15 pin connector on an ethernet card be used for? It's not the 15 pin like a video card would have, it's the longer two row 15 pin connector.
What would a 15 pin connector on an ethernet card be used for? It's not the 15 pin like a video card would have, it's the longer two row 15 pin connector.
Like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_Unit_Interface
I've never used one. Have some bits that fit it.
It's an AUI port, for the old 'thicknet' standard... but you can also get transceivers to adapt it to 10Base-2 or 10Base-T.
wrote:It's an AUI port, for the old 'thicknet' standard... but you can also get transceivers to adapt it to 10Base-2 or 10Base-T.
I have AAUI on some old Macs. Is that the same?
AUI connectors could be used to connect cards to "anything" using ethernet. I've seen AUI to 10-base-2, 10-base-5 and 10-base-T adapters, and I remember someone mentioning that it could be used to connect an ethernet card to optical fiber (but I haven't seen any adapter nor any documentation about it).
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I remember someone mentioning that it could be used to connect an ethernet card to optical fiber (but I haven't seen any adapter nor any documentation about it).
Yeah, it did exist, but it wasn't very common. Fiber isn't used very often to go direct to desktop machines, and didn't really catch on so much until after things had moved more towards twisted-pair cabling... so most fiber transceivers have Cat5 jacks rather than AUI ports.