Will a 60-foot run of CAT-5 ethernet cable work?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 07:36:45AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Ethernet is spec'd well past 60 feet, something in the neighourhood of
>> 1000 feet, so 60 should not bother it.
> It's 100M or 330' max over CAT 5 or 6.  The original 10base5, 10 Mbit  
> ethernet would go about 500M over coaxial cable (Thicknet).  Much  
> greater distances are possible with fibre.

And 10base2 (the coax everyone actually used) was allowed 200m.  The base#
indicated how long the cable run could be in hundreds of meters.

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Len Sorensen
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