> > The garage and the house are over 1/10 of a mile apart? > > yeah. it's not a car garage. ... > I don't plan to string cable at all. Cable is already in place > for all the electric stuff.
IOW the cat5 between the buildings is already in place? In that case, and supposing whoever put it in knew what s/he was doing, the safety issues should have been taken care of. There's still the matter of the 100m distance spec, but as others have mentioned that is not a hard and fast rule in practice. I have personally seen 10Base-2 (RG58 coax) work very well on a segment that was well over twice the 200m maximum length specified for that technology. If 10/100Base-T are equally robust, you might get by with a 200m run (esp. if you run only 10Mb over cat5, which is capable of handling 100Mb, and/or if nothing else in the same collision domain has anywhere near a maximum-length run). I would guess that POE might still have problems, separate from the Ethernet signal-distance limits, due to power loss in the wiring. The POE-powered device would likely have been designed to allow for the loss in 100m of the cat 5 pair that's being used to supply the power. You've got about twice that distance, thus about twice the voltage drop at any given current consumption. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
