Re: Fixed: Network (physical layer) broken.

[Patrick Dunford]

Mike Beattie wrote:

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:56:46AM +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
 

In the last house we built I had 23 rj45 outlets with patches to 14 of them
(6 phones and 8 computers)
Imagine the fun when making up the short patch leads for the patch panel.
   

I imagine folks are aware that CAT5 has a minimum length requirement for
100Base-X stuff?  should be around 2.5M from memory.. 

There is a *VERY* high likelyhood that I'm wrong, so correct me if so.
 

Commercial cables are available from 0.5 m, however in this length it is 
unlikely to be used except in a patch frame.