My church has two buildings with 6 PCs in building 1 and 3 PCs in building 2. In building 1 we have a Linksys BEFSR81 10/100 8 port router. I ran about 240 feet of cat-5 cable to building 2 and have an old Linksys 10/ hub. When they are hooked up everything works but the data tranfer rate is very slow. I got a linksys EZXS55W 10/100
5 port switch but when I replace the old 10 speed hub with the new switch nothing works. [ I have the cat-5 cable pluged into the uplink port of the switch but I also tried pluging it into a numbered port. ] The PCs say low connectivty and we can't connect to the network. I can't make the cat-5 cable any shorter but the book says it is good for 328 feet. should I try useing a router in building 2 instead of a switch and if so how do I configer it ? If not - any other ideas
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Jump to PostThere are a couple of things to remember. The max distance for Cat5 is 100 meters, but that isn't the length of the overall cable, it's for the wires inside which are twisted. This reduces the overall length you can run the cable. You should still be fine with 240 …
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