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by tim-- 1730 days ago
> Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

Yes, but at that point you may as well just run fiber. These days, the SFP modules are cheap (20km SFP for ~$80).

The loss of signal on a CAT6 cable will be much greater then on fiber. When too much noise is introduced on a CAT6 cable, speeds will drop considerably. Packet loss will be quite high.

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That's what I figured. CAT6 isn't exactly cheap.