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Copper Ethernet standards call for up to 100 meters. If the environment has much electromagnetic "noise", you might not make that distance unless you have well shielded cable. If you run Ethernet on "better" cable than it needs for the Ethernet "speed", you can sometime eke out some more distance.
The 2960 shouldn't matter much, vs. any other device. Longer distances usually degrade the quality of the received frame, and if it's corrupted, slows the effective transfer speeds as frames need to be retransmitted.
As switches regenerate frames, an unmanaged 4 port switch, place in-line half way, might be an inexpensive solution to improve end-to-end transmissions.
