Michael Torrie wrote:
Off topic, but my longest Cat-6 runs (linked at 100 Mb/s) at work are about 550 feet. The data transfer rate was about 7 MB/s over ssh, with not very many error frames. Of course at that distance if you added a hub, everything would come to a screeching halt. A switch would be okay, though.
My record was 614 feet over cat5e. Not every NIC would work, but the built-in NIC in my Dell Latitude D600 worked great (Broadcom GigE). I actually tested it with 800 feet of coiled up cat5e, and it worked, but I can't claim that as my record since the net distance was only a couple feet. Most NICs would auto-negotitate to 10mbps instead of 100, though. Not sure what the throughput looked like -- never tested it before that fateful day last summer when a tractor mowed up 300 feet of the cable. Oh well...
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