Router limiting speeds?

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Fringedabyss97

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I have a Netgear WNR3500 and plugged into it is a Cat 6 cable going to my main router (im using the netgear as a pass though or extender for wired around the house)

I did a speedtest.net and im getting 9.50 down and 9.49 up

the cable im connected to the netgear with is Cat 5

Whats the bottleneck in performance?
 
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Cat5 is more than good enough for 1GbE up to the full 100m spec - the 1GBase-T won over the 1GBase-TX specifically because 1GBase-T works over regular cat5, sparing companies from having to re-wire with cat6/6a. If your cat5 cannot do 1GbE, it is either damaged, does not actually meet cat5 specs or something is injecting unusual amounts of noise into it.
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Cat5 is more than good enough for 1GbE up to the full 100m spec - the 1GBase-T won over the 1GBase-TX specifically because 1GBase-T works over regular cat5, sparing companies from having to re-wire with cat6/6a. If your cat5 cannot do 1GbE, it is either damaged, does not actually meet cat5 specs or something is injecting unusual amounts of noise into it.
 
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