Hey bro, welcome back! How you been?
but on the first floor i just bought long ethernet cables to run from the switch in the basement to all the first floor PC's.
My brother installed this switch in his bedroom, and his kids are always on their best behavior. ;D
I wouldn't worry about things 10 years away, a lot could change with wifi, ethernet, internet speeds and more.
CAT 5e is 100mbps rated you need CAT6 and sore fingers for 1000mbps
Might not be rated but I use gigabit over Cat 5e in my house just fine. It would be downright foolish to use it for new installation though.
CAT 5e is 100mbps rated you need CAT6 and sore fingers for 1000mbps
Category 5e (CAT5e) cable, also known as Enhanced Category 5, is designed to support full-duplex Fast Ethernet operation and Gigabit Ethernet.
Category Standard Bandwidth Max Data Rate Shielding Cat5e 100MHz (up to 350) 1000Mbps UTP or STP Cat6 250MHz (up to 550) 1000Mbps UTP or STP Cat6A 500MHz (up to 550) 10Gbps UTP or STP Cat7 600MHz 10Gbps Shielded only Cat8 2000MHz 25Gbps or 40Gbps Shielded only |
Thank you JDFan. Yes, Cat5e is absolutely rated for a Gig. I would suspect crimping or termination issues with not being able to run Gig over Cat5e before I would suspect the cable itself.
Thank you JDFan. Yes, Cat5e is absolutely rated for a Gig. I would suspect crimping or termination issues with not being able to run Gig over Cat5e before I would suspect the cable itself.
... looked at the cable and noticed it had Cat5 printed on the cable instead of cat5e - replaced it with another cat5e and the network went back to 1GB.
I wouldn't worry about things 10 years away, a lot could change with wifi, ethernet, internet speeds and more.
This^^^
Any type of cable you run now is going to be obsolete by the time they use it IF they even use it. My advice.... ditch the idea of a drywall ceiling as they are a pain in the ass anyway and put in some drop ceilings. Then running cable becomes infinitely easier in the future.
Funny you should say that as it is pretty common. The beauty of it is that even with an RJ-45, you can still use a standard telco plug if you want to use it as a phone line. In one of my data center builds we ran Cat5e everywhere. If we needed a fax machine we just cross connected that run to one of our DID line blocks.
The T568A and T568B standards were specifically designed to be able to support multiple standards. This includes its ability to carry a POTS line as a POTS lines only requires Cat3 cable. Not sure what the purpose of your filter is, but if you are looking to simple leverage an existing Cat5e run for an analog device, you don't need a filter. The RJ11 plug will fit in the RJ45 jack without issue and will work fine. As per my earlier post, I wired a whole building with Cat5e versus running mixed lines. To use any run for an analog device simply required a cross connect from the panel to the DID block. This is pretty company in a lot of businesses.
Could one of you fine gentlemen just confirm for me that either a switch or a router will support both surfing the net and local LAN style gaming and it will save me running a secondary redundant cable from bedroom to bedroom?
Could one of you fine gentlemen just confirm for me that either a switch or a router will support both surfing the net and local LAN style gaming and it will save me running a secondary redundant cable from bedroom to bedroom?
Just to clear up any confusion -
You can't just run a standard cable directly from one computer to another. You would need a "crossover" cable to do this. You need to run a cable from each computer to your router. Your router connects both computers to the internet and each other.
My house is small enough for wifi to work well and I still wish I had ethernet in every room.
Could one of you fine gentlemen just confirm for me that either a switch or a router will support both surfing the net and local LAN style gaming and it will save me running a secondary redundant cable from bedroom to bedroom?
Just to clear up any confusion -
You can't just run a standard cable directly from one computer to another. You would need a "crossover" cable to do this. You need to run a cable from each computer to your router. Your router connects both computers to the internet and each other.