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Hi,<br>
<br>
after having messed around with quite a lot of Cat6a cables from
different vendors, it seems that the 2m runs are too short. Maybe
the Intel controllers are providing too much power to the jacks. I
have now exchanged the 2m/3m cables with 5m ones and this seems to
do the trick.<br>
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I know, that there will be some crosstalk at the cables' either ends
and I learned that even sophisticated measurement equipment will
discard the results for the first 2m of a Cat6a 10GbE connection.
However, having to deal with 5m runs is anything but convinient, if
you do have quite a number of cables to deploy.<br>
<br>
I am still monitoring the NICs, though… ;)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Stephan<br>
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