Cat6 or Cat6A? What do you run?
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bicycle_repair_man
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Unless you're running a 10Gbps network at a distance between 50m-100m, CAT6a isn't worth the extra cash. Come to think of it, neither is CAT6; it's only certified for extra distance (10m) above CAT5e, not extra speed.
Both will run 10Gbps. The main difference is that Cat6 is rated for (I believe) 60m, whereas Cat6A will run 100m. There are plenty of spec articles that will confirm the exact distances within the specs.
The key takeaway is that there is absolutely no difference unless you're going with extremely long cable runs. For a short cable, Cat6 is fine. Unless you're on 10Gbps over copper... which basically no one is running at the moment, Cat5a is perfectly sufficient.
The key takeaway is that there is absolutely no difference unless you're going with extremely long cable runs. For a short cable, Cat6 is fine. Unless you're on 10Gbps over copper... which basically no one is running at the moment, Cat5a is perfectly sufficient.
They were designed for less Crosstalk ( the interference from other signals in close proximity),They operate at 500mhz as opposed to 250 MHz (cat6). Overall better cable, better insulation,More bandwidth. Downside ,Bulky More fragile. If I were doing a new installation I would recommend Cat 6A as its just a little more future proof with the advent of streaming in hi res etc.
In the ideal world we should all still be using single core cpu's with that deduction. The fact is technology moves on and the current trend is to increase cable capacity every year to adapt and be ready for unforeseeable leaps forward in the way we use more and more bandwidth.
Its not going to stop at ssd speed or 4k5k6k .
What a bunch of tech babble. This is like a salesman talking about how good his tire perform in snow when the person lives where it never snows.
The shielding and crosstalk makes no difference at all if you do not have that problem. It is extremely rare to need this so unless you actually have a problem with interference it is a waste of money....just like buying snow tires when you live in south Florida.
The high bandwidth on the cable means nothing at all. The end port you connect it to controls the speed. Its like buying a firehose and connecting it to your house you still will not get more water.
If you NEED 10g then the cables have that ability if all you have is 1g then it makes no difference at all if the cable can run faster you just wasted your money.
This argument is mostly made by people who do not spend the time to really understand the technical statements and decide since I don't understand I better just get it just in case. This is the scam all sales guys use to scare people into buying unneeded stuff.
People that even think they can future proof their house by buying 10g just in case again are showing the ignorance. The network is not even close to the bottlenecks we see. Go look at the rates disk drives can run, the cost of getting disk subsystems that can even come close to pushing 1g much less 10g.
For a start learn your stuff. For example :- If you have a faster internet connection offering 100mb download you have instantly exceeded the bandwidth of a cat 5 cable. As a lot of people currently exceed that download speed the minimum would be Cat5e but it would be utilising most of its bandwidth which would make it vulnerable to crosstalk. So the recommended cable would be cat6. If you wanted to download at full speed for a 152mb virgin connection whilst streaming a movie to another pc or some other network talk you wouldn't have anything left.
I think your life may consist of waiting for one thing to finish before doing another but others including myself want things done now and fast and don't like waiting . If your router has a 10/100 conection and your modem has a gig connection the maximum the pc would receive is 100mb. Now if its sales stuff as you say ,why is it that already just on virgins fastest connection you have already moved from cat5 to cat5a to cat6 to see results? Learn your stuff!
BTW Im not a salesman but I do have a fast connection .Do you#?
I think your life may consist of waiting for one thing to finish before doing another but others including myself want things done now and fast and don't like waiting . If your router has a 10/100 conection and your modem has a gig connection the maximum the pc would receive is 100mb. Now if its sales stuff as you say ,why is it that already just on virgins fastest connection you have already moved from cat5 to cat5a to cat6 to see results? Learn your stuff!
BTW Im not a salesman but I do have a fast connection .Do you#?
You have no clue do you. Cat5e can run at a full 1g speed. You do not get more crosstalk just because you use it at the full speed. It is designed and rated to run at 1g up and 1g down. It MUST accomplish this to be eia/tia certified cat5e cable. Since 1g up and 1g down is the fastest any port 1g port can possibly run the cable will never slow the traffic down. Since the port is already running maximum speed buy a so called better cable does not allow it run faster than maximum speed.
Cat6 cable has been dead from the day it was put on the market. It is all sales hype for the people who think the bigger number is always better.
Cat6 cable was designed to run 1000-tx. This is a protocol that only uses 2 pair of cable. The equipment manufacture figured it was better to allow existing cable to be used so they decided to go to 1000-t using a 4pair solution everyone uses today. This left all the cable vendors with a cable that had no use so the marketing guys jumped up and started to confuse people.
You are the one that needs to learn there stuff....even some cat5 cable could run at 1g but there was not standard which is why cat5e standard came out to protect the end customers.
You don't have a clue and obviously stuck in your ways but unlike yourself some people don't want cables strewn across the floor all untidy. Most professional installs leave the cables buried in the walls and under floorboards out of sight. Does the OP really want to pull all those cables out when the bandwidth is needed. As the current generation of cable become outdated we will all require newer faster cables with more bandwidth and capabilities .Your theory is stone age and restricting technology from moving to the next level. Your not some kind of psychic who can predict what bandwidth will be needed in the future. As my original post said if I were to do a new installation I would use the fastest available cables for this reason. You may know some stuff about cables but you need to get down off your high horse and know that what you are saying doesn't apply to the OP. This post is now answered so we move on . Love you Billy xx
I really hope you were one of the suckers who future proofed their house by putting in cat6 cable. These people kept saying I will be ready when 5g interface come out. Guess what 5g never came to be they went straight to 10g which need cat6a to run. Everyone who ran cat6 cable now if they really need more than 1g must tear it all out anyway. I have been posting this one varius forms almost that long so it not like this is something new. Same things is going to happen on monitor cables when we actually get 4k monitors that can run 60 or 120hz. All those that future proofed themselves are out the money.
You are correct it does not apply to the OP question so you should not have even posted your response. You tried to say CAT6 is better just because so you should use it.
In almost all cases people are buy better cable than they need just because it makes them feel good and so they can brag to their fiends they have a bigger member...err number.
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