Is there defined somewhere a minimum length of patch leads? Historically we are using 1.5M patch leads because someone stated that .5m patch leads are not allowed for Cat5 installations ?
anyone know garry
Min Length of Patch Lead
Jun 21, 2006
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About 3cm, otherwise you can't get it into both connectors. None of the UTP ethernet standards I know of have a minimum.
I believe that some fiber systems do, where they assume some attenuation so as not to saturate the receiver.
The attenuation difference between 0.5m and 1.5m UTP cable is pretty small.
-- glen
Many thanks, thats what I thought but just wanted to check.
garry
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