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What's the max length of a cat5e cable?

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wraith3k

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I'm trying to use an ethernet cable that's around 50 feet long (stranded wire), that I had someone crimp for me, but I'm not having much luck. On my board there are two ethernet ports, one is the nforce 10/100, the other is Yukon gigabit. I'm trying to connect a linksys router. The nforce port won't detect anything at all when I have the cable in there, and the gigabit one will connect but drop sporadically, like something were loose. Could it just be that this cable is too long? Both ports and the router work fine when using a shorter cable.
 
I have used 50' with no problem at all, try recrimping new ends on the cable - sometimes they don't have good contact & you will lose connection
 
I've used a 100 foot quick-and-dirty homemade cable without problems (cheap Cat5 cable from a spool and I crimped both RJ45 ends myself) .
 
Ditto... we have a 100ft cable running to our neighbor's house, actually. Hand-crimped and cheap cable from a spool of construction-site-found cat5e. Sounds like your ends just aren't crimped well enough.
 
Thanks all, it seems to be ok now after just recrimping the ends. We tried this once already which didn't affect anything, but I guess the second time worked.
 
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