On Thursday 18 August 2016 16:07:28 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Back in the "good ole days" there used to be a minimum segment / cable > length for an Ethernet cable--I don't recall to what all it applied--i.e., > I don't recall if it applied to thick Ethernet, thin (coax) Ethernet, Cat 5 > and Cat 6, all of the above or just some of the above. I always used a > minimum of 6' and that worked for me.
I have frequently used shorter ones. I think that the shortest I have ever actually used was 30 cm. (12") (Cat 5 and Cat 5e.) So far I have never had occasion to use a short Cat6 patch cable. Lisi