GotApex? Forums - View Single Post - Does cable length affect available bandwidth or network status?

AmRivlin · 01-31-2001, 09:11 PM

My neighbor cleared out all of his old BNC cables and OLD old network crap and I was lucky enough to grab them before they hit the trash receptical, I ran the crap wires through the house, 200+ feet, and I am able to auto detect @ 10MBPS, 100 the network does not exist... I decided to test if it was the legnth, which it was not... Recently @ school they threw out many spools of CAT 5, It was all funky and twisted up but I grabbed two and probably about 300 feet is left... I will most likely "upgrade" the walls of my house...Try fixing wall connectors first, then look at cable quality... 100MBPS is quite fast, you will probably not need it unless you are constantly installing/backing up thru the network... The cost of cards is identical, but it doesn't really matter.

01-31-2001, 09:11 PM	#7
AmRivlin Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: May 2000 Location: Singapore Posts: 2,061	Cable Quality My neighbor cleared out all of his old BNC cables and OLD old network crap and I was lucky enough to grab them before they hit the trash receptical, I ran the crap wires through the house, 200+ feet, and I am able to auto detect @ 10MBPS, 100 the network does not exist... I decided to test if it was the legnth, which it was not... Recently @ school they threw out many spools of CAT 5, It was all funky and twisted up but I grabbed two and probably about 300 feet is left... I will most likely "upgrade" the walls of my house...Try fixing wall connectors first, then look at cable quality... 100MBPS is quite fast, you will probably not need it unless you are constantly installing/backing up thru the network... The cost of cards is identical, but it doesn't really matter.