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> Unless you have a local telecom willing to run CAT6 out to your house, you can't really find speeds like it.

Is CAT6 all that common? 100m runs seems pretty limiting in a rural setting. I think even the fibre that was strung up to my house in a fairly dense inner city neighbourhood has a longer run than that to the hub.

Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

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> Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

Yes, but at that point you may as well just run fiber. These days, the SFP modules are cheap (20km SFP for ~$80).

The loss of signal on a CAT6 cable will be much greater then on fiber. When too much noise is introduced on a CAT6 cable, speeds will drop considerably. Packet loss will be quite high.

That's what I figured. CAT6 isn't exactly cheap.

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