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

[Ijaaz A. Ullah]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Yanni Chiu <yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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You could:
1. cut both ends
2. join the solid/striped wires
3. use a 9 volt battery to test the pairs  (or any circuit tester/voltmeter/etc)
4. recrimp

re-crimping the ends may be enough to solve your problem.
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