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Does the price of a networking repeater change with distances it's supposed to cover (hops)?
i'm trying to find the optimum number of repeaters for a total distance of 5000KM. when i searched for repeater prices online, i didn't find information about any distances.. so, if i use 10 repeaters , would the repeater cost the same as if i used 20?
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- Fester FrumpLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
"Repeaters" don't count as "hops". Hops are a router thing.
For Ethernet - the rule is 5 repeaters maximum between two end points. Repeaters do not rebuild the signal, they only amplify it. That means they amplify the good and the bad.
The maximum distance is a function of the media, not the repeater. For 100BaseT the maximum distance between repeaters is 100M (.1KM).
Ethernet isn't likely to work over that distance.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000BASE-LX
