RE: [SLUG] [OT] repeaters & hubs ##

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, George Vieira wrote:

> I was told that the cable length limit was the longest 2 cable ends from
> point to point. So if you had 30 cables plugged into a hub and the longest
> cable was 80 meters and the second longest was 50 then you would have gone
> over the limit length by 10 metres right??? Makes sense in a way but doesn't
> make sense or may not apply to your diagram...
> As it is effectively one network, you have 500 meters there from node 1 to
> node 2....
> 
> What's the go?

You were told wrong.

The maximum cable length is dependant on media type - 100 metres for
10BaseT, 185 metres for 10Base2, 500 metres for 10Base5

For 10Base2 and 10Base5, these lengths _include_ any taps or runs to
connect nodes, because they are a bus type system. for 10BaseT, this
length refers to the distance between any one node and its repeater/hub,
or between ahy two cascaded hubs.

DaZZa

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