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

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

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Andrew Macks wrote:

> > In other words, you can use either hubs or repeaters to make your maximum
> > network length extend from 100 metres {for 10BaseT} to 500 metres in this
> > kind of diagram.
> 
> Just curiously, but has anybody played around with 10BaseT cable runs of
> more than 100 metres and measured the loss?
> 
> I want to know how far I can go *without* needing a repeater.

Not on 10BaseT, no. But it's not much [1] beyond the 100 metre limit -
especially with UTP as opposed to STP.

I pushed a coax run to 227 metres once upon a time - but the cards which
supported it were as expensive as hell. Specific circumstances - it worked
at the time.

DaZZa

[1] Definie "not much" as less than 15 metres, from memory.

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