As you probably know, cable length restrictions are about timing tolerances and Ethernet protocol efficiency / error detection. I do believe that there is quite a bit of robustness built into Ethernet and that the tolerances likely have a good degree of safety factor; but I don't think you can use simple testing to make a very strong conclusions that it "works correctly". Yes it probably "kinda, mostly works"; but it may degrade performance or cause intermittent problems that are harder to detect (e.g. high packet corruption rates, lower transmission rates, etc due to problems with collision detection and such). These issues might not matter much if performance isn't an issue - but I wouldn't want to have to worry about the what-if when things don't go quite right.
I'd personally stick with the specs and use switches, etc appropriately to solve distance issues. -Jeff -- jdoering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdoering's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17482 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
