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 Question by AnnMarie Buhrmaster posted 18 May 2001
 
I have 10/100 nic cards and am using cat5 cables. What is the max length from the 10\100 switch that you can go?
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 Answer by Roman Kitaev posted 23 May 2001
The maximums are:

90 m of horizontal cat5 cable + 10 m of patch cords.

Best regards,
Roman Kitaev, RCDD

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