[ On Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 13:47:05 (-0700), Jeff Rizzo wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Coax sizes for 'thicknet' type Ethernet
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:12:19PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers writing for
> > myself
> > 
> > Does anybody remember what size coaxial cable, that was used for the
> > backbone for AUI type Ethernet?
> 
> I believe it was RG-8.

Ah, well, *AUI* cable is normally somewhere between 6 and 15 conductor
shielded cable (6 is the minimum number that must be connected but I've
seen so-called AUI cable with all 15 conductors).  ;-)

For the real answer see:

	http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet-home.html

or more specifically:

	http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/10quickref/ch3qr_4.html

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