Cat 6a copper cable on a Gigabit Unmanaged Switch

[Hunyo18]

What happens if I use a Cat6a cables on a gigabit switch? will it bottleneck on the switch? can you recommend me on an unmanaged 24 port switch that supports cat6a?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Cat 6a with a rj45 connector will work in any switch, the cat 6a is just the the max speed.

 

Any 24port unmanaged switch will work fine. Id just get a cheap one, there all basically the same.

[dalekphalm]

11 hours ago, Hunyo18 said:

What happens if I use a Cat6a cables on a gigabit switch? will it bottleneck on the switch? can you recommend me on an unmanaged 24 port switch that supports cat6a?

Yes a Cat6a cable will work. They're rated up to 10Gbps for 55m or 1Gbps for 100m. For your Gigabit unmanaged switch, they'll work perfectly.

[Blue4130]

On 12/27/2019 at 2:26 PM, Hunyo18 said:

What happens if I use a Cat6a cables on a gigabit switch? will it bottleneck on the switch? can you recommend me on an unmanaged 24 port switch that supports cat6a?

Your switch is bottlenecking your cable

[Hunyo18]

On 12/27/2019 at 2:40 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Cat 6a with a rj45 connector will work in any switch, the cat 6a is just the the max speed.

 

Any 24port unmanaged switch will work fine. Id just get a cheap one, there all basically the same. 

Will it still transfer 10gb even though the switch supports 1gigabit and not a 10gigabit? Thanks for the info. Sorry for the late reply. 

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, Hunyo18 said:

Will it still transfer 10gb even though the switch supports 1gigabit and not a 10gigabit? Thanks for the info. Sorry for the late reply. 

No. You will always be limited by the slowest component.

 

If on one side you have a 10GigE NIC, a Cat6a cable, and then a 1GigE switch, the entire link will run at gigabit. Same goes if it's 1GigE on both sides. The cable can simply handle faster IF your nic + switch support it.

[Blue4130]

2 minutes ago, Hunyo18 said:

Will it still transfer 10gb even though the switch supports 1gigabit and not a 10gigabit? Thanks for the info. Sorry for the late reply. 

No, you will always be limited to the speed of the slowest part of the chain.