[54631] in North American Network Operators' Group
fast ethernet limits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Rude)
Fri Jan 10 15:13:40 2003
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:01:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Rude <steve@rudedogg.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi NANOG,
Could someone please help me with a fast ethernet problem I am having. We
have a POP in a 27 floor building, and have a rj45 run from the the bottom
of the building (in the telco room) to the top of the building. We have
cisco switches on either end and we are seeing about 5-20% packet loss on
the trunk.
Are we running into a distance limitation of fast ethernet, or are we suffering
from another problem? I read that 328 feet is the limitation of fast
ethernet. Is there anything short of getting a repeater for the cable run
that I can do to boost the signal?
TIA for your help.
Ciao.
Steve Rude
