The 1 metre number comes from the days of coax cable, and was the minimum spacing between stations.
In thicknet two vampire taps were to be no closer than every 5 metres. On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:50, Adrian Stacey wrote: > C Falconer wrote: > > If cables had to be 15 metres long, why can we use a 6 inch patch cable > > to join two hubs together? > Because you're lucky! Heheh > The EEEI spec. is minimum 1 metre I think, but that is between > equipment. I use less than .5m for patch cables which effectively gives > the minimum for other stuff in the box. Having said that folks use > links of 100mm and less with no apparent problem. The link cable that > comes with my stackable hubs is less than that :) > Totally agree with the bullsh*t comment <vbg>
