Type of Cable

10BASE2

The 10Base2 Ethernet standard uses thin coaxial (RG-58) cable.  10Base2 has a maximum length of 185 Meters (607feet) and because of its composition offers a fair amount of resistance to interference.  One of the more important is that it is limited to transfer speed of 10 Mbps.  This speed limitation reduces its effectiveness in many network environments.

10BASE5

The 10BASE5 standard uses the thick coaxial (RG-62) cable.  It is a transfer speed of 10Mbps and runs distance of 500 meter.  The 10BASE5 standard specifies a true bus topology, meaning that computer attached to the network cable itself using special cable and connectors it does no use additional networking equipment.

            10BASE5 network must be connected with a minimum distance of 2.5 meters between each other to prevent noise on the cable.

10BASE T

That a normal Ethernet network is one that operates at 10 Mbps and has  the name 10Base T.  Now-a-days more and more origination s are looking for even faster ways to connect there 3, 4 and 5 UTP cable and is limited to distance of hundred meters.

Fast Ethernet 100BASE T

100baseT is a 100 mbps networking standard based on  the principle of standard Ethernet.  A number of standard fall under the fast Ethernet banner; the most commonly implemented is 100BaseTX which use category 5(or higher)  UTP cabling.  The following sections describe he fast Ethernet standards.

10BASE FX

This is the standard of the running fast Ethernet over fiber optic cable.  Due to the cast of implementations this is the rarely used.  One of the largest advantages is its distance capabilities.  100BaseFX can reach an impressive10, 000 meters.

100BASE T4

100BASET4 can use category 3 4and 5 cable to reach speed of 100mbps with regards to distance limitation and other characteristics 100BASE T4  is comparable 100BASE TX.

100BASE TX

This is the fast Ethernet standard of choice on day network. 100BASETX is most often implemented with UTP cable, but it has been known to be used with STP.  100BASE TX operated at speed of 100 mbps and offers a maximum transmission

distance of 100 meters.  The difference between TX and T4 uses all four pairs of wire within the UTP cable TX only use two paired.