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Thicknet still used?

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by gralfus

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Does anyone know of thicknet still in existence, (not for new installs)? I'm still seeing questions on it in certain network cert self-tests. I can't imagine that it would still be around, except to show students "how things used to be".

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by tony hopkinson

in the UK still has two thicknet backbones running across the manufacturing unit. 10M still does the job and until it doesn't they're keeping it. Those were the days, spacing out vampire taps, and manhandling those big (AUI ?) cables.

by zlitocook

Yes it is still around, I have in my magic box (my car trunk) two vampire connectors and BNC, and termanators ect. Larger companys with older systems like the way older network systems work. But it is a big pain to get the newer XP-2000/2003 server system to work with it!

by liame

Theres a few places I've seen with thicknet in the last couple of years.

Tends to be there alongside newer stuff just running bespoke stuff off old as400 or unix boxes with dumb terminals.

If it aint broke?

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