>Some hubs can have a BNC connector in addition to the RJ45s, so could I have a
>couple of machines running off the hub's BNC connector with the rest on RJ45?

Damn, that's a good question! I've never tried that. I've either been all-RJ45 or all-BNC, but never a mixture. Does anyone have experience with this? Even the cheap hubs seem to have a BNC connector, too. I always assumed that plug was for daisychaining hubs and not for mixing 10baseT networks with coax networks. But I never tried.

In my experience, the coax usually shares a port allocation with a port (say, port 1). You can then only use either, not both.

I don't have much experience lately with switching hubs but I imagine that most cheap hubs these days will default to the lowest bandwidth ie.10
Are most hubs these days automatically switching speeds for each port?



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