I think a hub would be nice to have as some older Ethernet interfaces do not play nice with switches. I keep a small eight-port hub for such things. Dean On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:10 PM murphnj via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
In that vein, would the group be interested in a 24 port 10m smart hub? Older technology for demos and such.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Mark dropped off a 24 channel cat 5 switch.
You mean Martin. There's no Mark.
Specifically, it's a power-over-Ethernet switch. We can use that as a regular network switch, but it will also supply power for our two IP cameras, which Martin previously supplied. The cameras have motion sensors so we can configure them to send alerts (to the chapter admin group: me, Corey, Jeff B., Dean) when they record anything outside of our docent hours.
Beside the two cameras, one port will connect to our office PC and another connect to the BBS for Telnet access via our LTE modem.
What should we do with the other 20 ports? Any creative (non-sarcastic) suggestions for ways to demo/teach vintage computing that would need a network? To put it another way: how might we grow into a 24-port switch?