Do a full box Monkehchops
Someone really needs to re-asses their network structure...
Do a full box Monkehchops
Cat5e is fully capable of gigabit links over 25m.
May be capable in nigh on perfect conditions......but certainly not guaranteed or the norm in my experience.
I've just made up approximately 40-50m of cat5e for a test, and I can't call the conditions anything like perfect. I think the results speak for themselves:
[code:1][ 3] local 172.16.1.3 port 51347 connected with 172.16.1.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0- 5.0 sec 398 MBytes 79.5 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 5.0-10.0 sec 400 MBytes 79.9 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 10.0-15.0 sec 399 MBytes 79.7 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 15.0-20.0 sec 399 MBytes 79.8 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 20.0-25.0 sec 398 MBytes 79.7 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 25.0-30.0 sec 400 MBytes 80.0 MBytes/sec
[ 3] 0.0-30.0 sec 2393 MBytes 79.8 MBytes/sec[/code:1]
If you're unable to achieve cat5e specifications beyond 25m, your installation is faulty.
Hmmm...fair ernough, thanks for the info monkeh. I must admit i didn't lay the cabling in our work floors, so can't speak for how well its been laid or terminated. It has been pushed and pulled around all over the place though.
Did you use cat5e spec for everything including modules, termination etc?
Oh, and just to throw a spanner in the works, the patch cable is actually a crossover, so there's an impedence mismatch there. 802.3ab is quite robust.
Oh, and just to throw a spanner in the works, the patch cable is actually a crossover, so there's an impedence mismatch there. 802.3ab is quite robust.
How does a crossover cable cause an impedance mismatch?
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