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Are there any differences that a Cat 8 keystone jack has compared to the other categories?

 

Context: My neighbours are doing renovations and got upsold on some Cat 8 cable and later asked me for help with network stuff since I'm "the guy in the neighbour who knows computers". I've never worked with Cat 8 before and while Google shows that the cables themselves are different I'm not finding much info about the corresponding keystone jacks. Just want to know whether my neighbours will have to get specific jacks.

 

Appreciate any help, all!

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Normally the higher speced keystone jacks can handle the thicker wires used in higher grade cables, and are rated to run at the higher frequencies. Normally you need everything to be rated for the cat 8 speeds to get the full rated speeds.

 

But it really won't matter if it makes a connections, there are no standars where cat 8 would be better than cat 6a, so it really won't matter. 

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