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Questions about the electrical implementation of Ethernet; ask another Stack Exchange for software or protocol questions. Specify the speed as 10/100BASE-T is somewhat different from 1000BASE-T, apart form the speed. Those are copper standards; Ethernet over fiber optical cable is also defined.

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USB vs Ethernet cable length

He pointed out that Ethernet is transferring data at a higher rate (USB 1.5/12/480/5,000 Mbit/s (depending on mode) vs Ethernet's 10/100Gbps) and allows for a longer cable length (100m for CAT6 cable). … So I guess we're both wondering what aspect of the USB protocol limits the cable length to 5m and how does that differ from Ethernet? …
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