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 Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 01:49 Post subject: New network advice |
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So the wife and I built a new house and moved in last month. It was a modular (where they build pieces in a factory and then assemble them on site) to speed construction. It was supposed to have cat 6 installed in most of the rooms (I had a pretty intricate diagram) but unfortunately the builder checked the wrong box on the plans, so I got coaxial (cable tv) pre-wired instead. That's the bad news, but not the end of the world since the house is on an unfinished basement. So i'm going to run ethernet myself, and I'm just wondering about wire choice. I have a box of cat5a that I got for free. My question is should I just stick with the cat5a or should I go ahead and buy cat6a (its about 130 bucks on monoprice for 1000m). We plan on being in the house at least 10 years and the longest run would be 75 feet (22 meters for you non-Merikans) I know they have cat 7, etc but the standards aren't set yet so I don't want to invest in something where the standard might change. Thanks in advance for the help.
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Jan 2017 02:12 Post subject: |
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do it right and get cat7 cables, yes cat5e (there is nothing like cat5a) is enough for gbit ethernet. but you might want faster stuff in the near future and cat7 supports 10GBASE-T ethernet
distance isnt a problem,everything up to 100m (328feet for idiocracy trumpanistan citizens) is no problem. and cat7 is fixed (in every fucking country in the shitty world, but not in the land of the free...)
so get cat7 cables, but use cat6 socket. downgrades it to cat6, but you wont need adapters for the devices atm and if you need to switch to cat7 completely in the future you just need to exchange the sockets and not the cables
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 14:03 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. That was a typo, i did mean cat 5e (vs cat 6a). I've looked up cat7 cabling and I don't think i can do that. (The price of 1000' of cat6a is about $200 vs $650 for cat7). So I guess i'll go with cat6a and leave in cable-pulls so it will be easy if I ever need to re-wire. Thanks again!
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