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Re: More 100Mbit



On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 12:49:57PM +0200, Miki Shapiro wrote:

In addition to all that has been said here, I warmly suggest you use
a cable tester/scanner. These are quite expensive, but they save you
a LOT of time; the better ones show you cable length, attenuation
and NEXT levels, and help "debug" open and split pairs (ie, if one end
was bad, it'll actually tell you which).

Also, 100m is "on the edge" in terms of Cat 5; you usually want to keep
your cables at 90m tops, assuming several meters for user cable, patch
coords, etc..

Also also<g>, make sure your RJ-45 plugs are shielded. At these distances
even that may make a difference.

	Gaal

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