Comment by hnlmorg

1 day ago

Are you sure it’s not meant to be an RJ45 plug? The cylindrical thing to the bottom left corner of the wall socket looks like it might be a BNC plug. Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.

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cluckindan  1 day ago

RJ45 next to BNC implies a token ring network, not ethernet :)

  • hnlmorg  12 hours ago

    That was literally what I said:

    > Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.

    Also token ring was just one of a few different network protocols that supported BNC. Technically you could run Ethernet 10base2 over BNC too (In fact I used to have network cards that supported this, though I only used them for 10baseT).

    TR was definitely the more common protocol for BNC hardware though.

  • stoneforger  15 hours ago

    Token ring was the protocol, BNC the connector. Have you even lived without StarCraft on X.25 ? Don't forget to cap the ends!