Apple 9500 Series manual Connecting network cables, About Macintosh networking

Connecting network cables

Your Macintosh can be connected to a high-speed Ethernet network via an AAUI Ethernet connector or a high-speed 10BASE-T Ethernet connector. You can also connect to a LocalTalk network.

It is possible to be physically connected to more than one kind of network at the same time, but you can use only one of your connections at a time. If both 10BASE-T and AAUI networks are connected, your Macintosh automatically uses the 10BASE-T connection. If 10BASE-T and LocalTalk are connected, your Macintosh uses the 10BASE-T connection. If AAUI and LocalTalk are connected, your Macintosh uses the AAUI connection.

About Macintosh networking

Your Power Macintosh can connect to a network that consists of as few as two computers or as many as thousands or even millions of computers and other devices. The network allows you and the other people connected to it to share information, access remote services, and share computing resources such as printers and modems.

A network extends the features of your Macintosh by extending your reach to the services and resources provided on the network. For example, your computer alone lets you store, retrieve, and modify information on floppy disks, hard disks, and CD-ROM discs. On a network, however, you can also store and retrieve information on the hard disks and CD-ROM discs of other computers, access information that other people have stored for you, or use mail or other network services.

Your computer comes equipped with two built-in network interfaces:

LocalTalk and Ethernet. You can also purchase additional Peripheral

Component Interconnect (PCI) cards for alternative networks such as

TokenRing, ISDN, or FDDI.

To connect your computer to a network you need to do two things: connect your computer to the network using the appropriate cable, and set up your network configuration in the AppleTalk control panel, the TCP/IP control panel, or both.

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