jdoering;469906 Wrote: > As you probably know, cable length restrictions are about timing > tolerances and Ethernet protocol efficiency / error detection. I do > believe that there is quite a bit of robustness built into Ethernet and > that the tolerances likely have a good degree of safety factor; but I > don't think you can use simple testing to make a very strong conclusions > that it "works correctly". Yes it probably "kinda, mostly works"; but it > may degrade performance or cause intermittent problems that are harder > to detect (e.g. high packet corruption rates, lower transmission rates, > etc due to problems with collision detection and such). These issues > might not matter much if performance isn't an issue - but I wouldn't > want to have to worry about the what-if when things don't go quite > right. > > I'd personally stick with the specs and use switches, etc appropriately > to solve distance issues. > > -Jeff
so measure it with testing software, leave it for a few days testing, whatever; however in my exp, if it works its fine. its something the OP could try, if its no good, it was worth a try. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.4b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
