begin quoting Wade Curry as of Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 01:21:55AM -0700:
> Stewart Stremler([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:45:04PM -0700:
> > begin quoting John Oliver as of Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:14:21PM -0700:
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> > > This might have changed, but years ago, the Ethernet spec called for a
> > > minimum length of 1 meter. I know shorter cables work, but I tend to
^^^^^^^
> > > always use or make cables at least 3' long.
> >
> > Was that cable length, or distance between devices? I thought it was
> > the latter.
>
> OK, maybe I'm overlooking something really basic here... But, how
> do you connect devices that are a meter apart with a cable that is
> anything less than a meter?? This is just an example of your
> humor, isn't it? You wanted to see which dope got most confused
> about it, and it was me. :D
I'm not considering a patch-panel to be a device.
So a 3 meter run to a patch panel, and a 1' cable on a patch panel,
and then another 3 meters back to another device will be just fine,
by my thinking.
But I didn't bother to look it up before responding.
> Wade "internyms are passe, but ascii art monograms are cool!" Curry
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It's almost even McQuary-compliant!
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