Ok, so my dad is working from home and put together a little shopping list for me. He needs cables and lots of them. I check them out and then i get confused. What does Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6 mean?is it the thickness of the wire as well as speed or just speed? Also, they all fit in your standard RJ 45 connectors, right?
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Why not go wireless? No need for cables.
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Cat 5, cat 5e, cat 6 are categories for LAN cables. Cat 5 is old version, 5e is the one most widely use, the e = enhanced, runs at 100mbit/s. and cat6 is gigabit ethernet.
Wired Networking: Categories?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by missingtasks, Mar 20, 2006.