| Do you live in a small home or apartment with | | | | and cable. Over time, though, things do happen to |
| multiple computers? Do you ever have issues | | | | cables. They get pinched, pulled, and even twisted, |
| accessing files between those computers? This | | | | and with years of age, this can lead to data loss, |
| can be a pain if you have lots of files or do a lot | | | | which is the reason you may have problems with |
| of local streaming. | | | | local file transfers and streaming. |
| It is not uncommon for modern households to | | | | To solve this problem, consider buying a new |
| have multiple computers, even in the smaller | | | | cable or finding an old cable that you can swap |
| homes, apartments, and duplexes. The Internet is | | | | with and try to eliminate the problem. If your PC |
| a vast array of knowledge, fun, and business, and | | | | has a Network Interface Card (NIC) that runs at |
| we like to use it accordingly. We do this by | | | | 1 Gbps, then consider getting a cable that also |
| downloading, sharing, uploading, transferring, and | | | | runs at 1 Gbps speed, such as Cat5e or Cat6, |
| gaming, with our friends and family. Sometimes, | | | | and make sure your switch or router ports also |
| though, our activities slow down or freeze up | | | | run that those speeds. |
| even when our Internet seems to be running fine, | | | | You may never use a full 1 Gbps unless you |
| and we're left thinking, "There must be a way to | | | | move a lot of files around, and do lots of audio |
| speed up my PC!" | | | | and video streaming from other machines or |
| Although wireless connectivity is widely popular, | | | | servers. However, I'm sure there are lots of you |
| Ethernet cabling is typically the preferred, reliable, | | | | out there that do these types of activities, so it's |
| and traditional method to connect a PC to the | | | | definitely worth trying. Plus, if you're going to buy |
| Internet (typically via a cable or DSL modem). A | | | | a replacement cable and your hardware supports |
| lot of homes even have a combination of wireless | | | | it, you might as well make it a Gig cable. |