In a message dated 9/7/00 4:15:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<<  need to network, peer to peer, 2 computers at opposite ends of my
 house. Want to use CAT5 cable with BNC connectors.  Will be about a
 40 foot cable run. I have 2 each 25 foot cables and plan to connect
 them with a BNC connector.  How far apart can i realistically put
 these computers ?  Is 40 feet too far for reliable performance.??
 Both are pentium computers, one running Windows 98, the other
 Windows 95. Both currently networked and working fine, but only
 about 10 feet apart.

 thanks as always

 David Hurst >>

David,

A 40 foot distance is well within limits on shielded or non shielded twisted
pairs or CAT5 cabling.  If everything is connected perfectly I don't see  a
problem.  However, when you introduce the BNC connector, or any other break
in the cabling, you introduce another area of possible problems (ie, color
coding and matching connections, problems with the BNC connector itself, and
then of course the possibility of the connection breaking).  IMHO I would do
the connection with one cable.

HTH,
Kevin Nowicki

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