Are you planning an article on making coax/thinwire Ethernet cables?
The best advice I can give you is to buy or make (see below) CAT 5 or 5E cables. Unless you have a lot experience making coax cables and use the correct cable, connectors, and tools and avoid playing “musical chairs” (moving stuff around a lot), the network cabling will be simpler and more reliable with twisted-pair cable and RJ-45 connectors. You will also be able to upgrade the network to 100BASE-T with new adapters in the future. In particular, if you play games, 100BASE-T is what you will eventually want. Most problems with thinwire coax are caused by using the wrong wire and/or connectors and not properly installing the connectors. Cable used for cable television is RG-59 or RG-6. It usually has a solid-wire core and a characteristic impedance of 75 ohms. It is the wrong cable to use for a thinwire Ethernet. A thinwire Ethernet cable is made from RG-58A/U. It has a stranded core and a characteristic impedance of 50 Ohms. The best connector is is two-piece connector, AIM (http://ww
