10BASE-2 cable?

[ciphergoth]

No-one uses 10BASE-2 (coax) Ethernet any more, do they? I have loads of the cable but I suspect I might as well throw it away.

(Updated with correction - thanks to drreagan and others!)

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[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

It's still used for CATV ant DTV, so if you've got either of those in your life, you may need it...

Other than that, I've always thought that you could make some to structures with enough terminators and T-bits... :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

TV uses 75-ohm impedance cable, 10base2 uses 50-ohm. TV may work on 50-ohm cable but you'll lose some signal (but then, TV mostly works on mains cable for short distances); 10base2 doesn't like 75-ohm at all.