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

[Stephen Carville]

Lee Wilson wrote:
> 
> Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have
> attenuation errors or lost data, etc?

100 meters (~326 ft).

IF you are at 10 Mbps use the 5-4-3 rule:  No more that 5 segments
between any two nodes, no more than 4 repeaters (hubs) and no more
than 3 segments can have end stations on them.  For 10-baseT that last
rule is superfluous.

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