ethernet cable length [techtalk]

[Nicole Zimmerman]

> i remember that there's some limit on the length of cat-5 cable you can run
> between a hub and computer.  anyone know what that limit is?  and if i need
> to go longer, will it work to just stick another hub between, so that i
> divide the too-long length into two lengths that are short enough?

according to my partner in crime...

it's ~300 meters (mebbe 500), and it is actually NOT a hub and a
computer but between two active routing devices (e.g. bridge, switch,
computer) but not a hub...


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