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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:26:46PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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.

Yeah that's it.  Max 4 hubs.  I didn't remember the 3 part, although
given I never had more than 2 hubs I didn't have a problem.

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Len Sorensen
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