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

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> With hubs, the maximum in a chain I believe was 5.  So from one client to
> another at most 5 hubs could be in between, with whatever cable length
> in between each device depending on the cable technology (so 200m for
> 10base2, 100m for 10baseT/100baseTX, 500m for 10base5).  To go further
> requires a switch or router, not a hub.
>    
There's the 5-4-3 rule.  Five segments, 4 repeaters (or hubs) and max 3 
segments can be populated with computers or other devices.  A bridge, 
like a switch, creates a new collision domain.

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