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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Cat5 is designed to handle 100m of gigabit and cat5e 320m so I don't understand this fallacy that it "sucks"
In fact there's very little difference between the cable itself and the only reason as to why cat5e is supplied these days is that it's been superseded in manufacturing by cat5e with all of the factories only making the higher spec..
I wonder how few vm customers actually need the 100m to 320m capability of Cat5e??? and how many people would actually realize if you swapped all of their cat5e for cat5  |
Sure about this? All standards indicate a maximum segment length of 100m, absolute maximum, before active repeating is required?
See TIA/EIA 568-5-A - the Cat5e cable standard. It mandates 100m max segment length regardless of the speed you're running at due to timing issues to allow the CS part of CSMA/CD to work. Signals can't propogate down wire quickly enough to avoid it breaking without something active breaking the electrical domain.
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Originally Posted by thenry
too old for my liking
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Best get off this website and indeed the Internet then, TCP/IP which you use to reach the server it lives on and HTTP which it's using to deliver the web pages via all pre-date 1999 quite considerably.