Some devices will handle things over 100m and some won’t. I think that original 100m limit was based on coaxial based collision domain constraints.
From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 11:14 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PoE Cat5/6 cable distances We have a customer who trenched 500 foot of cat5 to an outbuilding, routers pop for "some reason" I wonder if an extender would help with that On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Are you trying to exceed 100 meters? Is there a good reason not to use fiber + DC power? -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 11:47 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PoE Cat5/6 cable distances Google for ethernet extenders with PoE. They exist. Never used one. I think up to 1000' ------ Original Message ------ From: "Dev" <d...@logicalwebhost.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: 2/3/2017 12:45:40 PM Subject: [AFMUG] PoE Cat5/6 cable distances >Is there any way to extend the cable length over a few hundred feet and >still get reliable power/data? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.