Difference between RG58 and RG62 Cable...

[Bryan W]

Does anyone know the difference between RG58 and RG62 cable?

Can a Peer to Peer network (Windows95) be run using a mix of
RG62 cable and RG58 cable? What would any problems be?

[J.Helmig]

DON'T !
One is for ARCNET, they other for Thin-Ethernet (difference impedance !).

With the high 10 mb ethernet freqency, don't violate the rules, or you will
pay for it with an unreliable/non-working network.

have a look at my "FAQ Win95/WinNT4 networking" on my website at
"http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/J_Helmig" , it has some detailed
instructions for cabling, software installation and trouble-shooting.
I hope, it helps you.

Johannes

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[James Moffitt]

Bryan

I am not sure of the specific technical differences between rg58 and rg62
but I think I can safely say that you should not mix your cabling types.

cheers

[Jon Hildrum]

A key difference for the interface is as you suggest the different
characteristic impedance

RG58 is 50 ohm and RG62 is 93 ohm I seem to recollect. Impedances in a
system needs to be matched to maximize the power transfer.
Try using a 4 Ohm speaker in a system designed for an 8 ohm and you'll see
what your network would face using the wrong cable.

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[Don Anderson]

Let me add my $0.02. RG-58 is 50 ohm and is used for 10Base2 (Thin
Ethernet). RG-62 is 93 ohm and is used for ARCnet. Networks using coax
are not very tolerant of impedance mismatches. I am going to assume that
you have 10Base2 network cards. If so, you should use RG-58. Make sure
you have a 50 ohm terminator on the first and last computer in the
network "daisy chain." I could blather on, but you can e-mail me if you
want to hear that.

Don Anderson
dona...@gte.net

[Jim]

Like all the chatter says there is an impedence mismatch. What actually
happens is that when the signal is expecting a 50ohm impedence and encounters a
93 ohm impedence there are reflections of that signal sent back down the cable
in the oposite direction causing errors. This would happen at any connection
where the two are joined.

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[Les Moss]

I run a small home network on a mix of 50 ohm and 75 ohm (TV Cable). Works
OK for me. The TV cable runs about 40 feet connecting 2 rooms which have
thin-net networks.