Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Aug 31 14:19:26 CDT 2018



> On Aug 31, 2018, at 3:07 PM, systems_glitch <systems.glitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I forget what the original allowed length was for drop cables, but I seem to remember it striking me as quite long! A few feet of CAT5 (or even better, STP) has a lot of wiggle room :P

50 meters, says IEEE 802.3.

	paul



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