@scottalanmiller said in Cat5/6 100 meters:
@Francesco-Provino said in Cat5/6 100 meters:
No reason NOT to use fiber. For that distance, fiber is cheaper, faster, more reliable.
Not faster, same speed. But otherwise, yeah. Let to go wrong, just easy.
Indeed, assuming same potential bandwidth of 1gb/s, while fibre will go around 0.1c faster than copper (contrary to popular belief, it doesn't go the speed of light, because it's still bouncing around all the way down, it isn't going straight like... like from a star or whatever), it still has to be changed from light to copper and back on either end.
Over long distances as well (and I mean quite a long way), the light itself can modulate slightly and depending on all sorts of things (lossless vs lossy with various other checks) in the end most setups you aren't gaining a whole lot unless you take advantage of either the ability to go longer distances (like the OP) which does increase speed because by the time you reach 150 meters with copper vs fibre, copper adds probably 50ms or so depending on the line.
So over 150m fibre may be slightly faster than copper, but not really significantly noticeable. Given how crappy a lot of cat 5/6 cable is, it might up being pretty noticeable at such a distance.
