{"id":8778,"date":"2016-09-08T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2016-09-08T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:43:13","slug":"retiring-thinnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2016\/09\/08\/retiring-thinnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Thinnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it was around 15 years ago that I set up the networking in my house. A few years after that I ran what was to become know as structured wiring for phone, cable, and networking&mdash;but I never got around to setting it up in the north side of the house where I set up my office. So for all that time I had phone lines running through the upstairs landing, and the network was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/10BASE2\">10BASE2<\/a> \"thinnet\" Ethernet which consisted of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BNC_connector\">BNC<\/a>-terminated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RG-58\">RG-58<\/a> coaxial cable up the stairwell.<\/p>\n<p>So I <em>finally<\/em> got around to putting jacks in the walls of the north of the house. So now comes the day which, without fanfare other than this blog post, I unplug the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/10BASE2\">10BASE2<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/10BASE-T\">10BASE-T<\/a> adapters and remove the cables from the landing and staircase.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8780\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8780\" class=\"wp-image-8780 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1-1024x694.png\" alt=\"Transition Networks' Ethernet\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 ToBaseT \/ 10Base2 Adapter E-CX-TBT-03\" width=\"584\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1-1024x694.png 1024w, https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160908-ThinNet-10BaseT-to-10Base2-Ethernet-adapter-cropped-1-443x300.png 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last 10BASE2-to-10BASE-T Ethernet adapter in operation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it was around 15 years ago that I set up the networking in my house. A few years after that I ran what was to become know as structured wiring for phone, cable, and networking&mdash;but I never got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2016\/09\/08\/retiring-thinnet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611],"tags":[3171,3170,3169,169],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","tag-10base-t","tag-10base2","tag-ethernet","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}