On 08/06/10 06:56, Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner wrote:

But I wouldn't want to subject it to the cabling, because (well, I'm not
100% sure if that's right) slot #1's cable is the shortest.
   

There are some scenarios where a shorter cable could show up a design 
fault, when a longer cable wouldn't.  I'm not an expert by any means, 
and just off the top of my head, perhaps:

Over-saturated inputs
Stronger signal reflections
Auto-termination problems

I've certainly heard of badly designed Ethernet devices not working with 
very short cable lengths....

Tim.

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