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Originally Posted by haydnwalker
How about using an app such as NETTEST to test actual throughput on different spec's of cables? You would then be able to make an informed decision on whether you'd see a noticable difference.
In reality, our gigabit network in our office at work only attains about 400mb/s over cat5e through gigabit switch ports to the server which is also on GIGe
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also Iperf (
Iperf | Get Iperf at SourceForge.net ) is a fanatstic tool for checking throughput over your hardware - use UDP testing rather than TCP to give you proper performance of the hardware you are using
remember to bare in mind that you will always get the maximum throughput of the worst performing piece of hardware - ie if you have a network card and cabling that can carry a gig, then a network card at the other end that can only carry 300mbits - you will always see 300 mbits in your testing
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
For gigabit (even indoors) if you're having a problem with cat5E then yes Cat6 or 7 will probably help though even cat6 can be limited to about 30m in certain electronic hostile areas
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no wrapping your network cabling around you microwave then?