# What are the limitations of ethernet cable?

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**Category:** Industrial Networking\
**Created:** [June 26, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forumautomation.com/t/what-are-the-limitations-of-ethernet-cable/1110 "2016-06-26T20:19:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forumautomation.com/t/what-are-the-limitations-of-ethernet-cable/1110/1 "2016-06-26T20:19:43Z")

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Limitations of ethernet

Maximum span of 328 feet (100m)

Copper cable is susceptible to EMI -Common sources:switching of large loads -eg: motor starters,VFD,etc…

Ground faults can occur between equipment -Occur when grounds are at different potentials. -May be intermittent or life threatening -Within a control panel use single-point grounds

No inherent protection from catastrophic events -Lightning can propagate through copper cat5 cable

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://forumautomation.com/t/what-are-the-limitations-of-ethernet-cable/1110/2 "2019-03-06T13:33:20Z")

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Network controllers may use one or more of these. 1. Polling, that is, the microprocessor checks the state of peripheral devices under the control of the program. Industrial Ethernet is used for industrial Ethernet, in general, Ethernet is the use of TCP/IP protocol.

In the field bus protocol, in order to improve the transmission efficiency, only the physical layer, data link layer and application layer are defined. To integrate with Ethernet, IP addresses are usually added before packets and data is transmitted over TCP.