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Originally posted by JPMiller usually " long" is considered over the standard 6-7' lengths you typically see at most brick and Mortar stores...
Longer cat5 cable can be hard to find and ridiculously expensive in a store |
Really, I buy 25' all the time (buy.com) for less than 10 bucks. Here is a 50' for 12 bucks.
http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresu...9&qu=cat5&loc=
When I need a longer one, I can crimp them myself. When I wired my house I ran the wires through the walls, put jacks on the walls and home run the wires to a central box.