Cat5 pro's

[erik_26]

I follow the "B" standard. But I got in a discussion with someone who was trying to say that you could lose packets or have drop out if you don't follow the standard becuse of how the twisted pairs are.

I am not going to cat6. I don't do much networking. We just upgraded our control room at the plant and I did a bunch of wiring and everything else.

I was making a bunch of patch cables and punchdowns.

I followed the standard. But in the past when I was in high school, I would just make them however I wanted without issues.

I realize the need to keep it simple so that the next poor fool that comes in after me has a fighting chance to figure out my madness.

[JDay]

Cat 6 is a waste unless your going to change all your switches net cards out to gigabit . But I ran all cat 6 at my new house.

Cat5/5e both work fine for gigabit Ethernet and are listed in the spec (IEEE 802.3ab).

[sevensix2x51]

+1 for t568b. but my brain thinks from right to left, so i start with solid brown.

cat 6 is kind of a pain in the butt as compared to cat5e. the orange and brown pairs are twisted super tight, and the divider thing in the center is another step (plus my company has standardized on systimax gigaspeed, and the color/white for each pair is just plain white. gotta pay attention). anybody using the ez-rj45 connectors? i love those things.... so much easier than the old-fashioned way.

[chaunbot]

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Cat 6 is a waste unless your going to change all your switches net cards out to gigabit . But I ran all cat 6 at my new house.

future proof... kinda surprised how many techie gun people are on here

[maurice05]

Why not cat 8 and call it a day

[paul0660]

I would just make them however I wanted without issues.

And, at that time, you probably threw your redbull cans on the ground.

Cat 9.6b, and call it a day.

[Yugo]

why not just run wireless wire and call it a day!

[Gryff]

Color is Color but if you maintain 100's of thousands of linear feet of cable its good to have a standard and train your employes to use the standard. Its a CF if everyone does their own thing and costs you $$$ in the long run.

Agreed. I regularly do networking on large-scale trade shows and conferences. I've had colleagues who have wired in whatever sequence they felt like and it screws the rest of us on the crew who have to troubleshoot problems during the show.