I like TJ’s suggestion, but if you wanted a shotgun approach, you could try breaking up the twisted pairs and give yourself two 4-wire ends on each side that’ll hopefully still handle 10mbps, then bond them. BAM! 20mbps. It’s so terrible it just might work.
Chris Wright Network Administrator Velociter Wireless 209-838-1221 x115 From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TJ Trout Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 500 Foot Cat-5 Run do you have conduit? pull better cable, like TCL2 should work at 100M no problem, if not use vdsl ethernet extenders On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: dig it up halfway and plug in a PoE powered switch :P On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Run fiber? :) You're only about 172ft past ethernet spec :P On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Matt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I have a ~500 foot buried cat-5 run that works fine at 10base FDX but > not 100base. Anyone know of a way to get it to run 100base? I need > about 20mbps out of this.
