10base2

10base2

(networking)(Or "cheapernet") The variant of Ethernet thatuses thin coaxial cable (RG-58 or similar), as opposed to10base5 cable.

The "10" means 10 Mbps, "base" means "baseband" as opposedto radio frequency and "2" means a maximum single cablelength of 200m.

10Base2

An earlier 10 Mbps Ethernet standard that used a thin coaxial cable. Network nodes were attached to the cable via T-type BNC connectors in the adapter cards. Also called "thin Ethernet," "ThinWire," "ThinNet" and "Cheapernet," 10Base2 had a distance limit of 607 feet. See 10Base5, 10Base-T, Ethernet and CSMA/CD.

10Base2 "Thin" Ethernet
10Base2 used a thin coaxial cable attached to each node using BNC T-connectors.