| Once only seen in the office and in geek's homes | | | | Frequently time's folks think that by plugging |
| today a net of some sort can be discovered in a | | | | quicker network cables into their equipment that |
| lot of homes. The influx of digital devices in to | | | | you'll see better performance. This is a long way |
| our normal lives saw the use of networking | | | | from true as a network is only as quickly as its |
| become much more unremarkable than it used to | | | | slowest component so if you employ a Cat6 |
| be. | | | | cable then you won't see the blazingly fast |
| Today you'll see them connecting all manner of | | | | 10gigabit data transfers that you were wanting |
| things together sharing resources like internet | | | | unless you’re other appliances are able of also |
| connections or simply sharing photos, flicks, music | | | | transferring at that rate. |
| or information between them. For some people | | | | Although the more modern Cat5e wire and Cat6 |
| this can lead to a number of Problems but one | | | | cable may look identical to the earlier Cat5 cable |
| that comes up time and time again is what is the | | | | inside there were a few changes going on which |
| difference between Cat5, and Cat6 wire and | | | | have allowed for this bigger speed and security. |
| which should I choose? | | | | In particular with Cat6 wire the reason behind it is |
| While Cat5 cable has been around for several | | | | the way that the wire cores are guarded they're |
| years now the more modern and updated version | | | | all shielded from one another for the full length of |
| Cat6 wire has only become humdrum more | | | | the wire. This permits there to be less |
| lately. Developed to deal with the demands of | | | | interference between them and improves the |
| the modern digital era in which we live with gigabit | | | | throughput significantly. |
| ( 1000mbs ) speeds at minimum and up to ten | | | | So which to select Cat5 cable or Cat6 cable? |
| times that are on offer. While Cat5 wire can | | | | If your gear will support the more recent Cat6 |
| manage up to 100mbs which in its day was | | | | cable then for sure that is the one to pick or if |
| considered fast, as you can see above this is not | | | | you're planning on upgrading existing appliances in |
| so any longer! There's also another choice that | | | | the future then definitely go for Cat6 cable. If |
| being a reinforced version of Cat5 cable known as | | | | however you are equipment is not up to gigabit |
| Cat5e cable this offers larger speeds of up to | | | | specification and you are not planning on upgrading |
| 1000mbs and bigger info integrity than its previous | | | | then you could probably get away with the older |
| version. | | | | Cat5 cable. |