Maximum CAT5e cable length?

[mrowton]

not me! way too insecure. watch out for war drivers.

I'm getting off topic here....

Thats a very generic statement that probably doesn't apply so much to readers of this forum. Out of the box configurations on wireless APs have gotten many people in trouble, but generally some very simple steps (WEP, disable SSID, MAC filtering) can greatly increase the security.

While I could never argue that taking these simple wireless security steps (such as enabling WEP) would make your connection highly secure. It will make it secure enough to avoid the average wardriver. Most wardrivers don't break WEP encryption (even though it isn't very hard to do) Its easy enough for them to drive around picking up default "Wireless" SSID's with no encryption.

Wireless is one of those few technologies where a 10% effort in security can get you a 80% less security incidents.

 

[leedogg]

On a side question, is there such a thing as too short a cable? I seem to recall having difficulties with a 3ft cable once and being told to stick with a 7ft or longer cable...?

 

[mrowton]

I've never had a problem with 3 foot cables before. If you browse around some commercial sites you can see options to buy them in 1 foot lengths.

I suppose that if you got too small (inches) then the twists wouldn't function.

{full-disclosure} my last sentence was 89% guessing

 

[fimchick]

Anything shorter than 3 ft will give you problems.

 

[Zedric]

Anything shorter than 3 ft will give you problems.

Why? I don't see any reason for it whatsoever. Care to explain?

 

[Reg]

The only problem I would forsee would be me ripping it out of the wall each time I accidentally moved the computer or laptop connected to it

 

[GoNz0]

i made an 8 inch cat5e to link my router to hub, works as well as all the other cables i have