Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length

[Traci Collins]

alann wrote:
> 
> Lee Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have
> > attenuation errors or lost data, etc?
> 
> We've got some runs in our building that are at least 250 Ft.
> They seem to work OK.  I dunno what the "official" spec is on that but
> back in the old days,
> we had RS-232 runs of the same length, they worked fine also.

The official spec is 100 meters including all patch cables on both
ends, so about 90 meters for the horizontal cable run.

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Traci Collins, MA
Professor of Computer Education
Colorado Mountain College
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