Re: Punchdown bloack for Cat5e

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

5e ?

Did I miss soemthing whilst in stasis ?

I thought (even shielded) 5e was only up to 100mbit/s, full duplex.

Cat 6, now that's for GigE over copper - right?

So, if you (think) you're getting 1gbit/s over your cat5e, you're
lucky, and the punchdown has brought you back to earth with a bump.

I guess you could join a Cat6 with a suitable punchdown, but it would
need to ba special cat6 one, extending the length of each pair by the
right number of twists, like a cat6 connectors does.

Or am I gloriously in the wrong?

Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups2@...> wrote:
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> Does anyone know if you can use punchdown blocks to extend two
lengths of Cat5e and still run gigabit Ethernet through them? Is there
a special type of punchdown block available?
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> Still trying to find a solution to extend around 50 Cat5e solid core
cables.
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> Thanks,
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> Paul.
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