Linksys FENSK05 manual Cabling Rules, Meters 328 feet

Appendix

To figure out which wire is wire number 1, hold the cable so that the end of the plastic RJ-45 tip (the part that goes into a wall jack first) is facing away from you. Flip the clip so that the cop-

per side faces up (the springy clip will now be parallel to the floor). When looking down on the coppers, wire 1 will be on the far left.

Cabling Rules
Hub-to-Hub (100BaseTX)	10 meters (32.8 feet)
Hub-to-Hub (10BaseT)	100 meters (328 feet)
Hub-to-Switch	100 meters (328 feet)
Workstation to Hub	100 meters (328 feet)
PrintServer to Hub	100 meters (328 feet)

·Computers should never be connected directly together on a network. They should always be connected to a hub.

·Only two 100Mbps Fast Ethernet hubs can be cascaded, (or uplinked), together. To cascade more than 2 100Mbps hubs, a switch or a repeater must be used.

·The maximum cable length from a node to a repeater, switch, or hub is 100 meters (328 feet).

·The maximum length for a Category 5 cable between a 100BaseTX or 10BaseT workstation and a stackable or other shared bandwidth hub is 100 meters (328 feet).

·The maximum distance between 2 100BaseTX hubs without a switch is 5 meters (16.4 feet).

·The maximum distance between 2 10BaseT hubs, (or a 10BaseT hub and an Auto-Sensing hub), is 100 meters (328 feet).

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