RE: CAT5E or CAT6

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would still go for 5e - I have about 35 boxes of it installed here
now - running gigabit over it to several places. Cheaper and much easier to
install than 6.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ben McCormack
> Sent: 16 March 2008 15:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CAT5E or CAT6
>
> Robin
>
> As far as I am aware you can run Gbit ethernet over CAT5e. I am
> running Gigabit over cat5e in the study.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable
>
> Also Cat 6 is more expensive and harder to install. More regulations
> about bend radius etc.
>
> Regards
> Ben
>
> On 16 Mar 2008, at 15:20, Robin Edwards wrote:
>
> > Currently having extension built on my house and in a discussion
> > with the
> > builder's electrician he asked if we wanted any cat5 or cat6
> > installed. Up
> > until now I'd been gradually moving to wireless, which in a house
> > with two
> > limestone walls in the middle (best part of two feet wide each)
has
> > been a bit
> > tedious and required a wireless bridge.
> >
> > Since he left I started thinking that given current issues
perhaps
> > staying on
> > wire makes a lot of sense and while house is in upheaval now is
time
> > to sort it
> > once and for all. We will be putting holes thru both of the
> > problematic walls
> > very soon.
> >
> > Next I checked price of Gbit switches and they are nowhere near
as
> > high as I'd
> > expected (few tens of pounds).
> >
> > So, I think I'll get two cables per room laid except study that
gets
> > three, but
> > based on peoples experience, what is best, CAT5E or CAT6? My idea
is
> > one for PC
> > one for video per room. Comments? Am I being mean? I realise Gbe
> > will give me
> > little in web access but I'm more thinking of covering options
for
> > next few
> > years (I would say 5-10 yrs but been bitten on that before)
> >
> > regards, robin
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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