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Pete C. Pete C. is offline
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Martin Eastburn wrote:

Is there electric power half way ? or 1/3...

Run out to that point - put in a switcher - and have
the switcher drive the other half.


Why on earth would you put a switch halfway when the total run is only
1/2 the max length spec for 100Mbit Ethernet on cat 5 cable (100m)???