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Originally Posted by thenry
smoothly? theres better cables/standards to aid high speeds
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
it might do it but it isnt supposed to. I am sure cat5 is rated for 100mbit and cate for 1gbit. The way things are going these days with gigabit NICs and gigabit switches it makes sense to use ensure all your hardware operating at the physcial layer is rated for the same speed to avoid any problems.
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Cat5 is designed to handle 100m of gigabit and cat5e 320m so I don't understand this fallacy that it "sucks"
In fact there's very little difference between the cable itself and the only reason as to why cat5e is supplied these days is that it's been superseded in manufacturing by cat5e with all of the factories only making the higher spec..
I wonder how few vm customers actually need the 100m to 320m capability of Cat5e??? and how many people would actually realize if you swapped all of their cat5e for cat5
