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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by hnlmorg on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:30PM (#46072484)
Are you sure it’s not meant to be an RJ45 plug? The cylindrical thing to the bottom left corner of the wall socket looks like it might be a BNC plug. Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.
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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by jaffa2 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:51PM (#46072676)
Yes i look closer. Maybe it is a rj45.
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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by cluckindan on Thursday November 27, 2025 @05:15PM (#46073678)
RJ45 next to BNC implies a token ring network, not ethernet :)
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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by toast0 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @07:26PM (#46074439)
My combo 10base2/10baseT card begs to differ.
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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by stoneforger on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:09AM (#46075706)
Token ring was the protocol, BNC the connector. Have you even lived without StarCraft on X.25 ? Don't forget to cap the ends!
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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by hnlmorg on Friday November 28, 2025 @03:40AM (#46076790)
That was literally what I said:

> Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.

Also token ring was just one of a few different network protocols that supported BNC. Technically you could run Ethernet 10base2 over BNC too (In fact I used to have network cards that supported this, though I only used them for 10baseT).

TR was definitely the more common protocol for BNC hardware though.

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Re:Quake Engine Indicators by hsjdndjdiendn on Saturday November 29, 2025 @12:21AM (#46085343)
Nope. Ethernet back in the 10mbit days was over rj45 or thin cable BNC. Man I am old.
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