RJ45 Suggestions

[WokeUp]

Hey guys next week I am getting AT&T 1GBPS Fiber in my house and I wanted to know what Ethernet cable I should buy I know cat5e can handle 1000mbps but on amazon the price is not that different with cat5e's and cat6's so which should I buy? I even heard there is cat7! tell me if the cat7 is real because the price is not that bad but what do you guys think?

 

cat7: https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Vandesail-Network-Gigabit-1000Mbit/dp/B013W0ARNY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1498942271&sr=8-3&keywords=cat7+ethernet+cable

 

another cat7 from amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013PUMQYY/ref=psdc_9938479011_t1_B015PPQXZ0?th=1

[manikyath]

cat7 isnt a thing you should care about

cat6A is for 10 gigabit.

cat6 is mostly for doing gigabit along extremely "noisy" environments like in patchpanels or datacenters without having to worry (much) about interference.

cat5e is what most people use for gigabit stuff, and the difference in price mostly comes from the amount of shielding, or the physical strength of the cable.

 

my preferred cable for the home is cat5e, they're cheap, they do the job.

[Ezzy-525]

Personally my home network runs on Cat6. In the past I've found Cat5e to have issues with speeds not defaulting to Gigabit and locking at 100mbit. (Not a problem if you're ok with changing settings back and forth) but for ease of use I prefer Cat6.

[Technomancer__]

7 minutes ago, manikyath said:

my preferred cable for the home is cat5e, they're cheap, they do the job.

I prefer cat 6

Its almost the same price with 5e

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, Ezzy-525 said:

Personally my home network runs on Cat6. In the past I've found Cat5e to have issues with speeds not defaulting to Gigabit and locking at 100mbit. (Not a problem if you're ok with changing settings back and forth) but for ease of use I prefer Cat6.

never had that issue.. except that one time when the connector fell off my armored steel cat5e cable..

[manikyath]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

I prefer cat 6

Its almost the same price with 5e

depends on which 5e you buy, you can get super overkill shielded 5e for the price of standard cat6.

[Ezzy-525]

Just now, manikyath said:

never had that issue.. except that one time when the connector fell off my armored steel cat5e cable..

I don't think its an issue everyone will have experienced. All I know is it annoyed me to no end 

 

Had to keep going back into the adapter properties and changing the speed. 

[manikyath]

Just now, Ezzy-525 said:

I don't think its an issue everyone will have experienced. All I know is it annoyed me to no end 

 

Had to keep going back into the adapter properties and changing the speed. 

for me its either all systems go, or nothing at all because interference is fun

[WokeUp]

5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

for me its either all systems go, or nothing at all because interference is fun

 

6 minutes ago, Ezzy-525 said:

I don't think its an issue everyone will have experienced. All I know is it annoyed me to no end 

 

Had to keep going back into the adapter properties and changing the speed. 

 

8 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

I prefer cat 6

Its almost the same price with 5e

Alright thanks guys but are you sure I should not just buy that cat7 I linked its 10$ not too expensive at all or is it overkill I just like the 600MHz 

[Ezzy-525]

1 minute ago, MartinWake said:

 

 

Alright thanks guys but are you sure I should not just buy that cat7 I linked its 10$ not too expensive at all or is it overkill I just like the 600MHz 

It's up to you really. Cat 5e & 6 will both do the job. But if you want Cat7, you do you.

[brwainer]

There is an ISO standard for what Cat7 cables have to be made of and what specifications they have to meet (ISO/IEC_11801) but it isn't recognized here in the US by the TIA/EIA, meaning that you can't get in trouble in the US for selling a "Cat7" cable that doesn't meet the specifications. And it's well known that many Cat6 and Cat6A cables don't meet the specification already anyway.

 

If you want to prepare for the future a bit, I recommend getting a Cat6 or better cable. But unless you're running the cable through the wall, you might as well just get a Cat5e cable because cables do degrade over time, and it may be a long time before your WAN connection exceeds 1Gb. Also, the new 2.5Gb and 5Gb ethernet standards only require Cat5e anyway.

[manikyath]

20 minutes ago, brwainer said:

And it's well known that many Cat6 and Cat6A cables don't meet the specification already anyway.

that'd be a nope, "cat6e" however..