On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I have an additional question. I have a 150' cat5 cable hand made by my > vendor. It doesn't work. A friend told me that with long runs there's a > special wiring method than with short runs, in order to limit capacitance or > inductance or some such. > > Anyone know about that? > > One thing I can tell you is that the non-working cable has only 4 conductors > crimped. For long cables, should all 8 be crimped?
"buzz" it out to ensure it's built correctly. Daily I run 5-10 ports over 50' 4-wire cables. I am sitting outside connected over a 100' cable now (2 each 50' with a coupler, both 8-wire). I operate in an EMI noisy environment (lots of cheap PCs; cellphone operation is intermittent). In summary, I've got a less than optimal environment with long cables and no significant problems. My guess is your cables not built correctly. > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Founder and acting president: GoLUG > http://www.golug.org > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
