MMJ cable length?

Tothwolf wrote: The 5-6' cables were probably the most common, but you could go up to about 300' if you ran it at a slow enough speed. Avoid outside runs as much as possible (lightning damage can be very impressive). It really depends on the enviornment you are in on how long your average cable will be. If you are setting up a terminal room, you will probably use short cables. If you are setting up in an office enviornment, you will probably want to wire the walls, and place MMJ jacks on the wall. Then you will need to have cables long enough to reach from the wall to the desk (5' to 20'), depending on weither they are willing to have their desk against the wall with the jacks. I wired up a lot of long runs from a computer room to individual offices, and you cannot get the cable through an existing wall with the ends attached. They almost always get trashed on the way through the wall, or get hung up on the way through. Later on, I used regular CAT-5 connectors on the wallplates, and wired cables up as CAT5-MMJ to the terminals. This allowed for later transition to a network, as wll as using easier to find CAT5 wallplates.