Why you should run a quality cat 5/e/6/a run...

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Nearly 10 years after I pulled Cat 5 to my second house I came across the want to use Gig- speeds. My fileserver, webservers, and test bench all runs in this second building. I was faced with the delema of having to pull new wire and I was NOT looking forwards to it. However, I ran Cat 5 premium (it was left over from my uncles house and cost him $400 /1000ft). Being the smart (lazy) person I am, I decided to just say screw it and test to see if I could achieve and maintain gig speeds on the existing copper.

:)

Full speeds, I have moved over 400 gigs of data back and forth just to test. Everything works great. This is over 150ft of cable too. Realizing this, I remember that I had ran the same cable for every pc in the main house. A $25 Netgear gig switch later for the upstairs and I was golden :).

Yes I will be running new cable (Cat6a), but not until the summer and above 20 degree temps.

:D
 
go for cat7, running cable is pita, go with the latest if you can afford it

cat7 lets u do 10gbit over 100m and it has pretty crazy shielding on it
 
axan said:
go for cat7, running cable is pita, go with the latest if you can afford it

cat7 lets u do 10gbit over 100m and it has pretty crazy shielding on it
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QFT. If its hard to change out I would go with something that you may not need but if you do you don't have to rerun cable.
 
If you cant get decent prices on wire please let me know. $400 for 1000ft is way high imo so if you want to save a bit let me know and i could probably ship you a box.
 
Keiichi said:
Free is always good. What I'd do though since you already have good quality wiring already, try saving up for fiber to run alongside the Cat5.
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I will be moving from this house before I ever need a fiber link.
:)

I have a spool, just no way to terminate it.
 
boostified said:
If you cant get decent prices on wire please let me know. $400 for 1000ft is way high imo so if you want to save a bit let me know and i could probably ship you a box.
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I think he meant his uncle paid that much for it 10 years ago when he first ran it.
 
Cat5 in 1998? Wow I was still using terminators and t-pieces then.
 
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