Peter Sealy wrote:
On 24/01/2006, at 3:29 PM, Robert Howells wrote:OK ! With all that knowledge about ethernet , can anybody say what is the maximum distance is for a single hop before a repeater would need to be employed ?100m
Yep, for Category 5/5e/6 UTP, which is what usually gets used. STP has different rules (I don't know them), and fibre goes a *lot* further than 100m.
I've seen 300m Cat5e runs in real-world use, but I wouldn't want to do it myself.
-- Craig Ringer
