Old Cat 5 cable for home network?

[Lancear15]

I have a 100' spool of cat5 running to a 4 channel router then another 10' cat5 to the computer (all were Fry's cheapest I could find parts) and here's a link showing my connection speeds with a FIOS 30/20 connection.

Just went to that website and got 12Mb/s up and 8Mb/s down

I'm accessing verizon wireless mobile hotspot.

My super crappy field laptop, cat5e to a netgear cheepo switch, cat5e to a trendnet fiber modem, one mile of fiber, another trendnet fiber modem, cat5e to another cheepo netgear switch, cat5e to a crappy desktop, accessing through the desktop. Everything is the cheapest stuff of its kind available on the market... modern networks are amazingly good.

[brianinca]

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Id go 5e or 6, 5 is NOT rated for gig, max run length should be 100m port the specs.
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You're full of it, seriously. GigE is CAT-5, period. You all are making a big deal about nothing.

I'd guess you all talking nonsense about CAT-5 vs GigE don't know much about history, tell me about the 100VG-Anylan and token passing and then I'll pay attention to your ignorant statements.

Regards,
Brian in CA

[meaty-btz]

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Id go 5e or 6, 5 is NOT rated for gig, max run length should be 100m port the specs.
>>>

You're full of it, seriously. GigE is CAT-5, period. You all are making a big deal about nothing.

I'd guess you all talking nonsense about CAT-5 vs GigE don't know much about history, tell me about the 100VG-Anylan and token passing and then I'll pay attention to your ignorant statements.

Regards,
Brian in CA

+1

BTW did the IPHelper+trusted solve your needs?

[SeanCasey]

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Id go 5e or 6, 5 is NOT rated for gig, max run length should be 100m port the specs.
>>>

You're full of it, seriously. GigE is CAT-5, period. You all are making a big deal about nothing.

I'd guess you all talking nonsense about CAT-5 vs GigE don't know much about history, tell me about the 100VG-Anylan and token passing and then I'll pay attention to your ignorant statements.

Regards,
Brian in CA

+1

While I would go with CAT-6 (but I am the type of person who would have 10GBASE-T networking gear at home and the hardware to make use of it), CAT-5 is sufficient for Gigabit speed, although the standard does "recommend" CAT-5e.

The reality is that most people's computers wont have the ability to push out that must data at once due to slow read/write speeds of a single hard drive (not a high performance RAID array, and most do not have SSD's yet), so the difference between the two will be not be noticable. Perhaps once the adopton of SSD's and fully connected households becomes mainstream we will start running into the deficiency of CAT-5 for Gigabit.

[Dutch3]

He's running like 3 drops for a home network, you guys are way, way overthinking this. I have Cat 6 at home, but I got that from work, no way I'd toss out some perfectly good Cat 5 to buy a roll of Cat 6. Hell, if you were closer I've got several partial boxes collecting dust out in the garage.

This^

I'd use it all up before buying more.