- Cable: Cat 5 vs. 6, patch vs. cross-over
- Posted by Telford on December 16th, 2003
Hello
For connecting from the router (which has line in from the cable modem)
into my desktop, will I need cat 5, 5e, or 6 cable?
and what about patch versus crossover.
I tried to order some cable cheaply on-line (I need about 100 feet
long line), didn't know there were all this different categories.
Thank you.
Good day.
- Posted by Greg on December 16th, 2003
10/100 ethernet will run fine on Cat 5 but if you can get cat 6 for a couple
bucks more do it. You never know what tomorrow brings. It is not as critical in
a patch cable but any wire you fish in a wall should be the best you can find.
Labor is always worth more than wire
- Posted by Chuck on December 17th, 2003
On 16 Dec 2003 11:22:28 -0800, telfordutd@hotmail.com (Telford) wrote:
For connecting a computer to a router, you will use a patch ("straight
thru") cable. Most routers have the crossover functionality built in
to their LAN ports; you connect a straight thru cable to those.
As far as quality (5/5e/6), 100 feet of cat5 will work fine for
100mps. If you're installing the 100 feet inside wall though I would
get 5e or 6 for future speed upgrades (1G LAN in the future).
Chuck
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- Posted by Basic Bob on December 18th, 2003
"Telford" <telfordutd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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All these cables come in either solid or stranded varieties. Both have good
transmission characteristics. Stranded wire should not be used anyplace
where the cable needs to flex or you have tight bends. Solid works great for
the punch down wall jacks.
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- Posted by James Knott on December 18th, 2003
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- Posted by David DeDene on December 18th, 2003
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:41:10 GMT, James Knott <bit_bucket@rogers.com>
wrote:
I was always under the impression that the whole point of stranded
cable was it was more FLEXIBLE. Look at any application where a cable
needs to flex and it's stranded.
- Posted by Basic Bob on December 20th, 2003
"David DeDene" <spam@spam.org> wrote in message
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Sorry, it was a typo.
Stranded wire should be used anyplace where the cable needs to flex or you
have tight bends.
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- Posted by Greg on December 21st, 2003
Must be damned cold where you are to spend this much time on a typo. If I
wasn't freezing my ass off I wouldn't have noticed ;-)
- Posted by Basic Bob on December 21st, 2003
"Greg" <gfretwell@aol.com> wrote in message
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I was not the one who noticed, and I would hate to mislead any newbies with
obviously wrong information.
By February, the current temperature outside will seem warm. But the lack of
sunlight on the eyeballs is what is really killing me.
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- Posted by James Knott on December 21st, 2003
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Well, starting Monday, the days will be getting longer.
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