Hi, I read in a book that 1000base-cx uses a fiber optic cable but other books say that 1000base-cx use a special coax cable. I read on the technotes that 1000base-cx use a special coax …

Hi, I'm writing the network+ exam on Wednesday and I'm having a few problems with the cable standards. I'm using a few different resources for my study and it seems they conflict slightly.

So I've been studying and going over things that I have trouble with, mainly port numbers and cables. My two sources are exam cram and cbt nuggets.

Gigbit distances can span over a lot more cabling than 10/100: 10/100 is about 100 Meters Gigabit 1000BASE‑CX Twinaxial cabling 25 meters 1000BASE‑SX Multi-mode fiber 220 to …