CAT 6 Ethernet Cable

Soft Shock · Mar 14, 2015

So my cousin has 50 MB download and about 10 MB upload internet. On Steam he gets about 23 Mbps for downloading. It's weird because I have 60 MB DL and 10 MB UL and my games download at 7.9 Mbps. For some reason Steam is the only place he gets such high speeds. My other cousin (his brother) works on computers and he said the reason for such high speeds is because of their CAT6 Ethernet Cable. I decided to buy one today and test it out. There's been no change in my Steam downloads. I'm wondering if the ethernet cable is really the reason for their high download speeds on Steam. Has anyone here heard of this type of thing? Once they accidently had the ethernet unplugged. We were downloading a game and it was downloading at about 5 Mbps. We plugged the cable back in and the downloads shot back up to 23 Mbps. It's very strange. Perhaps there is something I haven't done to make the cable perform the way it should? Any tips on what I can try before returning the cable is appreciated. Thanks for reading.

USAFRet · Mar 14, 2015

megabits vs megabytes per sec. Approx 8:1 ratio.
Various things report it differently.

It only counts if the two of you (and all of us out here) are using the same ting to discover the 'speed'. Preferably speedtest.net.

laviniuc · Mar 14, 2015

any utp cable can handle those speeds, in fact cat5e can reach 1gbps. the speeds you get are "up to" and depending on the isp and how crowded their network is you can got up to 60mbps (which btw is about 7 mega bytes per second) or less.

try speedtest.net it's usually a good measurement of max speeds.

laviniuc · Mar 14, 2015

USAFRet :

you beat me to it

Kewlx25 · Mar 15, 2015

The network cables doesn't make transfers faster or slower, but it does affect packetloss. As long as the cable is not defective, no one should really notice any difference between cables except near the max of their lengths.

CAT5 can do gigabit, but not at 100 meters with max tolerable noise.
CAT5e can do gigabit up to 100m within max spec noise
CAT5e will be able to support the upcoming 2.5GbE spec at 100m
CAT6 will be able to support the upcoming 5GbE spec at 100m

Better cables don't mean faster rates, just less packetloss. If the cable is bad enough, the packetloss will be too great to maintain a connection, but most home users only use a few meters of cable and it never really happens.

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