Thread: 100M What Kind of Ethernet Cable is best?
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Old 31-10-2011, 17:52   #27
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Re: What Kind of Ethernet Cable is best?
I'll just fall back on my observation that ADSL operates at close to the noise floor of modems perfectly happily in millions of homes through lower spec cable than cat5e. The operating voltage levels on ethernet are many thousands of times higher which makes it vastly more immune to local RF noise pickup. Plus CAT6 is no more immune to noise pickup than CAT5E.

IMO future proofing would the only reason to choose one over the other. In any normal home running gigabit ethernet there would be no difference in performance.
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