Re: Cat 6 UTP cable

I agree with everyone but the question had no detail as to what this is for... Is it a printer that needs to be plugged into the switch? A PC that just needs a connection but any sort of errors are acceptable. Has anyone ran a CAT 6 cable 200 meters and if so, what were the results?

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On Jun 11, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Tom Kacprzynski <tom.kac_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I totally agree if this is a new setup (fiber all the way), but if you have
> a cable there and want to try extending things out to see if it works as a
> last result then that's what i meant with using 10 half.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Shaughn Smith <maniac.smg_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What he said :)
>>
>> CCIE # 23962 (SP)
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>> On Jun 11, 2010 8:11 PM, "John Lockie" <john.lockie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 200M is totally unacceptable. 95M is the standard, and as an engineer you
>> should fight for this.
>>
>> What you allow ultimately will fall on you.
>>
>> This is like a asking a mechanic to tie a string to the throttle so that
>> you
>> can use that instead of a gas pedal. Will it work? Ok, maybe...should the
>> mechanic do it for you just because you ask? No. No good mechanic would
>> accept that crap, and no good engineer should push the limits this far. I
>> am not blaming you, I am encouraging you that your doubts are totally
>> founded....
>>
>> Tell the client, or your bosses, that the only acceptable method here is to
>> run multimode fiber and, yes, upgrade the switches if they don9t have SFP
>> ports. The transceivers for 1Gb fiber are like $150? This isn't9 that
>>
>> expensive.
>>
>> If you are running new copper, stop....and then fire your cabling
>> contractor.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/11/10 10:33 AM, "Tom Kacprzynski" <tom.kac_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I heard that you might be abl...
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