On Thursday 05 December 2013 18:32 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:08:28 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

I'll give the direct ethernet connection a test later,though
that's 25
m long.

Assuming there is nothing drastically wrong 100BaseT is speced to
100
Mbps over 100 m of Cat5 cable... I think Gigabit has the same
length
limit.

Yes - 1000baseT is also 100m max, even over Cat6/7 cable.

I should hope so, Cat6 or Cat7 is "better" than Cat5. B-) I think
you need Cat5e for 1000BaseT (Gigabit) at the long lengths ie the max
100 m, Cat5 won't quite cut it.


Yep - exactly

My point was that 6/7 does not buy you anything over 5e though - but 6a/7
will get you 10gig speeds!
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