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

[Yanni Chiu]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:15:17AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> So my only option, other than "sneakernet", is 60 feet of CAT-5 cable.
>> Will ethernet work over that?
> 
> You are allowed 100m of CAT-5 for 100Mbit operation by the spec.
> It does work in my experience too (200m does not by the way, as would
> be expected).
> 
> So 60 feet is nothing.  You are allowed 5 times that.

I put in a 50 foot run of CAT-5 through my basement a long time ago. It 
worked, then I got wireless. Then the wireless hub went flaky. When I 
tried the cable again, I couldn't get it to work, and gave up (did 
without until I replaced the wireless hub).

If I wanted to get the wired connection working again, where should I 
start. I don't have any cable debugging tools, just normal household stuff.

I suspect I made bad terminal connections, or handled the wire too 
roughly during installation. If I were to do it over again, I'd buy a 
pre-made 100-ft cable, instead of connectors and boxes.

-- 
Yanni
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