How Far Can You Run an Ethernet Cable?

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In this video, we talk about how far you can run a single ethernet cable, why there is a limit and some of the ways in which you can extend past this limit if needed.
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Contents of this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:33 - How far can you run an ethernet cable?
1:11 - Why is there a limit?
1:59 - Does a longer cable reduce speeds?
2:38 - How to measure the length of an ethernet cable
4:19 - Can an ethernet cable be extended?
5:13 - Can an ethernet cable be run outdoors?
6:16 - Wrap up
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@backyardboxingx9975 3 жыл бұрын

Answered my problem in the first minute

@vladislavkaras491 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you!

@Joshuasbikingandadventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this information!

@EvilSah 3 жыл бұрын

love you guys ty for this video

@GangStar_6 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video. Just bought a 75 ft cat 8 cable for my Xbox one. I hate WiFi for gaming. 😝

@gustavocastrejon8763 3 жыл бұрын

How much was it lmao

@user-bj6qb6yz6o 3 жыл бұрын

Did it make your internet better

@ashutoshsingh7928 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-bj6qb6yz6o as offcourse if you compare with wifi

@HealthySkepticism777 3 жыл бұрын

@@gustavocastrejon8763 $15 probably . They are cheap

@ivanj296 3 жыл бұрын

Do you lag less? Like lag spikes/teleporting in your games went down?

@markdavison1685 2 жыл бұрын

Really great content to the point love your work.

@henrytoledo4103 3 жыл бұрын

Ive run 350ft direct burial to my garage, and 300tt above ground and worked fine with cat6

@spearhammer6490 3 жыл бұрын

I would be interested to know what brand you used

@flyinghaiku 2 жыл бұрын

I'm running it from the living room to my room, I'm tired of lagging on the game and my friends clowning me lol

@iantodd4918 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant info

@homenetworkgeek192 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@danriceman7533 Ай бұрын

Vid is very informative. Only thing I'd like to add from personal experience working right at the 100m length with direct burial rated cable that you must crimp your own ends. I can't stress enough how important it will be to your sanity to invest in name brand crimper tools and name brand connectors. In my case Klein brand passthrough connectors and crimping tool finally fixed an intermittent dropout problem that caused me much headache using cheap crimpers and connectors. It's one of the few tools I believe in buying high end now. Again, great video otherwise.

@jeffwhite3021 2 жыл бұрын

I have a camera 820 feet from a POE switch on 23 Ga pure copper cable. Works excellent.

@handsome-soup3294 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@vibeamv859 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@pythonl0rd584 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know, I’m gonna need to buy a long cable for my room, since we have concrete walls and WiFi is shit at getting through that.

@cate01a 3 жыл бұрын

be happy youve concrete walls! these damn paper thing drywall ones are 0% soundproof

@soup-3767 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@soup-3767 3 жыл бұрын

@@cate01a fr

@zelkraps5398 Жыл бұрын

@@cate01a that's sad bro, so you can't say the n word without people knowing

@cykablyat8513 Жыл бұрын

I have a run that I need to make in a warehouse, 578feet. Client doesn't want to drop a ton of money, which we could get away with using cat6e, but fiber would be optimal. If you have to do a run that is longer than 250 feet, I would recommend using a switch. In our case it's Modem -> switch1 -> 250feet -> router1 | switch1->switch2->router1 | switch2 -> router2. The reason why I went with this setup for our run, is if switch2 goes down, router 2 is can run off of switch1. This limited areas of failure and since this was for a warehouse, failure is bad. Do not use one switch and run everything off of it, that switch goes down, then everything else is down

@invictusOne Жыл бұрын

Lovely! I've been trying to understand the capacity and distance an ethernet cable can handle. You do a great job explaining this topic. Thanks

@ZackChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Hi thank you for the information. I am having some issues with a cable a bought. It is 10m however is reducing the speed to more than half

@mangofruit420 3 жыл бұрын

How long distance can cover by Cat6 cable ?

@cate01a 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! Great information, Kept short, Uses timestamps

@vinstondavid 2 жыл бұрын

My root wireless router with internet connectivity is at bedroom and to extend the wireless range I would like to install an dual band router in my living room by running a lan cable from root router to dual band router which might be around 45feet in length...is it acceptable without any additional accessory sir

@reesbritton6623 2 жыл бұрын

What about running Ethernet to another building? Do you have to worry about ground loops? How do you avoid such a thing? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

@rupaloop671 6 ай бұрын

Is armed Ethernet cable classed as weather protected? I need to connect another building about 150m away. Could you send a link to an unmanaged switch as well, it would be much appreciated. Thanks

@micheal2312 3 жыл бұрын

Can anybody help ? maximum cabling length Cat8 is limited to 30m cabling length with 25 Gbps or 40 Gbps. Which is it 25 or 40 Gbps. ? I don't understand this

@kevingray1771 2 ай бұрын

If compare a shorter ethernet cable than 100 meters is it the internet speed the same?

@yvngazan1911 3 жыл бұрын

Can a Ethernet cable Cat6 work on my wifi modem

@Platinumdose420 7 ай бұрын

Will a poe box work for long lengths?

@AlbertoLopez-uz2mt 2 жыл бұрын

I want an Ethernet cable for zoom classes, inside my house I’ll need a 50 meter cable, is a cat5e gonna work ?? Honestly I just need it for zoom classes

@TurboSpeedWiFi 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it will work great.

@rmtv4612 2 жыл бұрын

80 to 100 meters lan cable works?

@bryce3846 3 жыл бұрын

I have a Cat 6 Ethernet if I drill holes in my wall and connect it to my router 25 ft away would that make my speeds and stuff slower ??

@homenetworkgeek192 3 жыл бұрын

Nope at that distance you won't notice any difference; your speeds will still be what you are used to.

@bryce3846 3 жыл бұрын

@@homenetworkgeek192 thank you very much also is having a Ethernet permanently good or no?? Like how long is it good to have for before it’s not good ?

@gthgfg8132 3 жыл бұрын

@@homenetworkgeek192 how drastic would 100ft go down

@morisjohnny84 Жыл бұрын

How does an unmanaged switch looks like?

@lethalleader5934 3 жыл бұрын

Can i use ethernet cable upto 300M ? & How?

@mayuravirus6134 Ай бұрын

Theoretically speaking endless as long as your cable is long enough

@leotrikz8919 2 жыл бұрын

Is the connection still good at 20-30 meter

@Vibytech Жыл бұрын

It is

@McDADDyK 3 жыл бұрын

100m. There I helped you out.

@ClockUnClock Жыл бұрын

Me "is 100ft of CAT 7 too long?" Internet "Bruh, really?"

@bradleypittman9370 2 жыл бұрын

Is there any difference between 50ft and 100ft I have 100fr but 50ft would work also is cat 7 better cat5

@HarrySwettenham26 2 жыл бұрын

No need, Cat 7 has never officially been endorsed and doesn't conform to international standards. No difference between 50ft and 100ft on Cat 5e, you will get 1 Gbps up to 328 feet. Cat 6a is a good future proof as you can get 10 Gbps up to 100m (328 feet). Check the price and see if this works out a little bit more expensive as it saves you ever running the cables again. The motto, do it once, do it right comes to mind.

@hurabbas6144 3 жыл бұрын

Mine is almost 50ft away will it work well?

@homenetworkgeek192 3 жыл бұрын

You should be fine at 50ft.

@basshelou 2 жыл бұрын

What do I use for 650m run??

@freeze1305 2 жыл бұрын

7 100M Cables and 6 unmanaged switches.

@Andy-iq8ok Жыл бұрын

My room is very far from the router maybe like 10-30 meter and i hope it doesnt effect the speed.

@christianbagtas2819 3 жыл бұрын

How about fiber connections? Will the distance weaken the signal of the router?

@homenetworkgeek192 3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the type; Singlemode can go as far as 2km

@christianbagtas2819 3 жыл бұрын

@@homenetworkgeek192 what cat do we need to use? Is cat 6 enough or we need cat 8?

@sneakgaming1171 3 жыл бұрын

@@christianbagtas2819 Well, how long is your run? What are you going to use it for? Fiber is expensive. If you want to go fiber you need a switch that needs a sfp port or get a sfp to rj45 converter. I would go for multimode since singlemode is very very expensive. Multimode will get you between 200-500m range. Depends on the module + cable. OM3 is my recommendation.

@christianbagtas2819 3 жыл бұрын

@@sneakgaming1171 thanks sir.