Re: Cat 6 UTP cable

Hi,

As an engineer in a previous company I inherited an approximate 170m
Cat-5E connection.
It frequently caused problems for the end PC. In the end, I got an
oscilloscope and compared the waveform with the IEEE 802.3 mask. I was
amazed it worked at all after looking at the resulting signal.
After slapping the original planner around, I organised for fibre (at
cost to our company) and that fixed the intermittent problems.

I recommend you quote the network design specifications for Ethernet to
the architect (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html). That
way, if they still go ahead with it you will be covered.

best regards, Andy

ospfv2 wrote:
> sorry for this quick dumb-Q,
>
> anyone there ever run cat 6 cable over 200 meters succesfully without problems ?
>
> Thanks
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Received on Sat Jun 12 2010 - 09:28:23 ART