[Malvern] More on LANs

[Ian Pascoe]

Guys

Can anyone clear up a couple of techy questions I have please?

Firstly, on a LAN how far can a signal be pushed and maintain the network's
speed  without regenerating the signal

If you introduce either a hub or switch does this re-generate the sigtnal?

Does the answers to the above change when you use the cabling to provide
power as well as the signal?  Along the lines of powering VoIP phones.

And lastly what is the main difference between cat 5 and cat 6 cabling?

I would have normally fired these questions off internally at work but due
to a re-org a couple of months ago those engineers cannot now be contacted,
on pain of death, by anyone from my organisation!  Don't you just love
it....

Cheers

Ian
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