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Running a cat 5 cable longer than 300 ft

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I have two buildings that are not quite 400ft apart. I had a shielded 2-pair cat5 network cable laid between them (I didn’t know about the ~300ft limit on Cat 5 cables). Is there anyway to add a booster or other extension to the ends to be able to make the network cable work across that distance? I was able to get signal for about 3 days, then it just cut out.

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Standard?

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What is the net work standard you are useing? (the standard for 100 mb Fast-Ethernet lan is 100baseT or TX, IEEE-802.3u, which will limit you to aprox. 100 meters, or about 300 ft) That won’t give you reliable service in your case. I would recomend a cost effective switch to optics between the two facilties. (where as IEEE-802.3z, 1000BaseX is a Gigabit Lan, still simple enuf to config. uses less expensive optics, with a range of up to 5km, 0r about 2miles +/ – ) A big plus also with optics is lack of interference (elec/mag) and it’s highly secure.

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you can get booster to do this

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BLACKBOX has many. We just got new ones for a run that is about 600′, but the boxes will run about 3 miles at 15mbps.

When I get back to work, I will look to see what the ones we just got were. I thing it is about $600 for the pair that you will need.
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BEST thing is to either change to fiber now OR use a wireless bridge to span the distance.

Ethernet extender

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http://www.patton.com/products/pe_products.asp?category=162&MiDAS_SessionID=712e1686aa49464d8766dbdc0d338d8b

This has been in place for a year, and never has any problems.

Again, for a new run if possible, I would strongly recommend converting to fiber or wireless because of the bandwidth.

If that is not an option, these will work for you. Plan on about $680 for the pair though.

2 buildings

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There are a lot of extenders to use. Just Google around and y’ll find some. Or go wireless.

But if using the cable did you think of the electrical tension differences between the 2 buildings let alone the desaster that could happen if lightning hits 1 of the 2 buildings.

Think it over if you don’t wanna go wireless or fiberoptics

Rob

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1000 ft at 10/100 MPS from Riggs Technology

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We also offer a product that extends cat 5 cable for up to 1000 ft with a full 10/100 Mbs. Currently a single unit that can extended cable to 675 ft is only $229.00. Check out our web site.
http://www.riggs-tech.com

james riggs

We offer the best Ethernet Extender solutions

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Hi,

Check out our Ethernet Extender that extend beyond Ethernet distance 100m limitation.

http://www.versatek.com/products/ethernet-extenders.htm

Thank you

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