Does the price of Ethernet cable make a difference in quality?

[Trippsy]

Im looking for a 50ft - 75ft (haven't measured yet) ethernet cable and seeing mostly $10 and some up in the $40 range.
Are they all basically the same thing or is there a benefit to buying the $40 ones over the $10 ones?

Im mostly concerned about ping. I noticed while I was on ethernet I had extremely stable and low ping whereas on wifi its all over the place especially while someone else is streaming (Youtube, Netflix, etc.)

[Ominous]

They are the same thing, just get a CAT-6 cable

[Trippsy]

Just now, Ethan_ said:

just get a CAT-5 cable

Wouldn't cat6 be better?

[Lurick]

Check to make sure they aren't CCA (Copper clad aluminum) as those are junk cables and should never be bought.

[goto10]

i woumdnt buy anything under cat 6 now, especially for long distances

 

i have seen cat 5e made on so low quality recently, almost sad to see

 

invest on some decent cat 6 or the best cat5e you can find

[2FA]

Doesn't matter, get cat 5e or cat 6. There's no difference between the two for your use case.

[Sir Asvald]

3 minutes ago, Trippsy said:

Wouldn't cat6 be better?

Be better at what? Cat5e I can go up to 1gb at 100m. Cat6e does 10gb at 55m while cat6a does it at 100m

[FlappyBoobs]

Cable quality doesn't affect signal as long as the cables are the same standard.

 

There are two types of core and 2 types of shielding. Multistranded cables are cheaper, more flexible and better suited for if you move them around a lot. Solid core is cheaper, but not flexible (constant movement will make them brake internally and you'll have a dead cable). Both of them offer the same performance (solid cables tend to be on backbones, stranded for patch cables). 

 

Then you have shielded and unshielded cables. Unshielded is cheaper, but more prone to interference, shielded is, well shielded and doesn't have as much of a problem with this.

 

You also have foiled and unfoiled cables. Foiled cables put the shield around each set of twisted pairs and unfoiled don't.

 

You can have any combination of those types of cables, the most expensive being multicore, shielded and foiled cable.

 

Your choice of the "best" is down to what your application will be and what interferrence it will get.

 

 

After that it's down to the quality if the plastic the cable is wrapped in.

[Trippsy]

10 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Be better at what? Cat5e I can go up to 1gb at 100m. Cat6e does 10gb at 55m while cat6a does it at 100m

Wouldnt it generally be better if its newer than cat5? That makes sense to me.

 

Of course there's times where older generations are better than newer generations but I just figured cat6 would be better.

[goto10]

cat5e is great, but as mentioned, recently i have seen cables made of other materials, not copper wires, those are garbage

 

cat6 i havent seen other thing than copper, i havent used 6e, is very expensive, for my hose i have cat6, some cat5e on some devices, but to comunicate routers with modem and most desktops i have only cat6, i never have issues

 

about the original question, ping is all messed up because wifi has to deal with other wifi signals, noise form other sources, weak signal caused by walls and floor between other reasons

 

to play games, ethernet is the way to go