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Flinkly:
i noticed a thread a while back about usb cables and how you can't use them over long distances. i was wondering about the same thing except with tv cable/internet cable and ethernet cable. i'm looking to move a computer to another part of the house, away from the spot i originally had it installed. would it be better for internet reception to have my internet cable go fifty feet, or to take my ethernet cable fifty feet. also, will i really lose "reception" with my internet, or am i fine and just worrying about nothing? i'm a mechanical engineer so all this electrical stuff isn't my thing, but it seems like neither should matter, since servers use long ethernet cables and since tv cable gets wired throughout the house anyways...but thanks for anyone who calms my nerves on this.
JB:
--- Quote from: Flinkly on March 18, 2005, 08:39:04 pm ---i noticed a thread a while back about usb cables and how you can't use them over long distances. i was wondering about the same thing except with tv cable/internet cable and ethernet cable. i'm looking to move a computer to another part of the house, away from the spot i originally had it installed. would it be better for internet reception to have my internet cable go fifty feet, or to take my ethernet cable fifty feet. also, will i really lose "reception" with my internet, or am i fine and just worrying about nothing? i'm a mechanical engineer so all this electrical stuff isn't my thing, but it seems like neither should matter, since servers use long ethernet cables and since tv cable gets wired throughout the house anyways...but thanks for anyone who calms my nerves on this.
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TV cable is fine for any distances you're going to get in your house.
Ethernet has a limit of 100 meters, or 328 feet. Though this is for an individual cable. Routers, switches, etc., reset the run length when it hits them.
AmericanDemon:
regardless, the coax is going to be cheaper, unless you have a friend who has access to a lot of ethernet cable.
cholin:
Yeah you're fine either way you go. I just bought a new computer and I ran a good 100 feet of ethernet through my house from the router...works like a charm.
Flinkly:
thanks guys. i dind't think it was a problem, but i never new there was a problem with usb either. just didn't want to spend alot of money in cable and work, and then figure out it didn't work.
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