I now understand why ridiculously short Ethernet cables exist... I need to connect the switch to the router that's right on top of it, and there's absolutely no reason why it should go over a long (3m?) cable except that those are the only cables that I have, ideally the cable should be as short as possible for this

Is it true that longer Ethernet cable means longer latency, or is the signal so fast that it simply doesn't matter? (Possibly I'm misremembering and it's simply that the signal-to-noise ratio gets worse if the cable is really really long?)

@vaporeon_ I also asked this question when we were planning "put a long cable from the router in my room to Holly's PC" and yeah she insisted "not over any distance we could achieve in our home"

@The_T How long is the cable?

But good to know, so the only downside to my long cables is that they make cable management difficult and result in a tangled mess, they don't actually make the connection worse

@vaporeon_ ask @monorail @amy