[Elephante]

Is there a huge difference when using cat 6 instead of cat 5 for residential...?

 

[sbrn33]

Nope, but if the owner really wants it about $100.

 

[mikeh32]

Yes, long term there will be an issue.

THey already require rg6 quad, and cat5e.

I see 6 being the next

 

[someonespecial]

Who are they? Cat5 for ethernet/phone and RG6 for cable/sat here

 

[Ty Wrapp]

Cat5e is AT&T standard.

 

[chewy]

Cat6 is more resiliant to install I find.

 

[five.five-six]

Category 6= up to 10GBBPS
Category 5e= up to 1GPBS

In residential, 1GBPS is a redonkulous amount of throughput, as in I have yet to see a residence that had a problem at 100MBPS.

 

[Joefixit2]

Am I the only one who feels that the data cabling we are installing today is already on the verge of being obsolete? With wireless and cellular etc most of our prewired stuff never gets used. Now there's HDMI-2 and before you know it probably the TV will be wireless anyway.

 

[five.five-six]

TV will be wireless

That's pretty a futuristic idea you have there.



Wireless has bandwidth limitations, security limitations and frequency congestion limitations.

 

[azgard]

Am I the only one who feels that the data cabling we are installing today is already on the verge of being obsolete? With wireless and cellular etc most of our prewired stuff never gets used. Now there's HDMI-2 and before you know it probably the TV will be wireless anyway.

Cabling will never be obsolete, I lived in probably a more gentrified Apartment complex and had problems with wireless reliability. This was with modem being directly across the wall from the AP.

Unless you got already 5e, just do Cat6a and it should be good for 20+ years and cover emerging technologies that are increasingly being put on twisted pair.

 

[mikeh32]

there are more benefits then speed for cat6, such as POE.

 

[Edrick]

there are more benefits then speed for cat6, such as POE.

You can run POE on cat5e...

 

[TOOL_5150]

You can run POE on cat5e...

hell, you can run PoE on cat3... im not sure what those 2 have to do with each other.

 

[azgard]

hell, you can run PoE on cat3... im not sure what those 2 have to do with each other.

Cable resistance.

 

[Edrick]

Cable resistance.

Still not seeing it PoE is designed to run on cat5e

 

[triden]

Category 6= up to 10GBBPS
Category 5e= up to 1GPBS

In residential, 1GBPS is a redonkulous amount of throughput, as in I have yet to see a residence that had a problem at 100MBPS.

Bill Gates said you'll only ever need 346 kb of memory.

 

[chicken steve]

I don't believe we've servers here that exceed cat 5e capabiities, but fiber is coming, so will the speed & cat change....? ~CS~

 

[Joefixit2]

That's pretty a futuristic idea you have there.



Wireless has bandwidth limitations, security limitations and frequency congestion limitations.

By wireless TV I meant LAN, not broadcast

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I put some Cat 6E in at the customers request-- The only issue is cost- I paid alot more for it then I did for cat 5E. I didn't even know there was a cat 7

 

[electricmanscott]

Am I the only one who feels that the data cabling we are installing today is already on the verge of being obsolete? With wireless and cellular etc most of our prewired stuff never gets used. Now there's HDMI-2 and before you know it probably the TV will be wireless anyway.

You might not be the only one but I find I'm running more and more network cabling in homes. I just added three more drops to my home theater when I upgraded some gear. Wireless is for people who don't care about audio/video quality. and poor people.