Does it matter that I bought 550Mhz cable?

sehcure · 20 Jan 2012 at 21:35

I just bought a 30M snagless cat6 cable that has '550mhz' in the name and just after buying it realised that I don't actually know why I bought that one as I didn't read up about it.. :rolleyes:

So um I have a z68ap-d3 motherboard which has a Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) onboard that i'll be using.

The terrible thought I had was that it wouldn't be compatible for some reason.. Though I'm sure I just spent £10-15 more than I needed too and it'll end up being complete overkill..

So..What does the 550mhz rating refer too? And will it be compatible? I'm on a 35mb line from virgin media with a superhub.

Thanks guys

Deception · 20 Jan 2012 at 21:41

Looks fine to me(will still do 1gbit like you need.. Looks basically like a high standard cable.

ots3go · 20 Jan 2012 at 21:59

It's the frequency the cable has to carry in order to achieve the desired speed, so to speak.

250mhz is needed for gigabit whilst 10gigabit requires 500mhz over 100m. [iirc]

sehcure · 20 Jan 2012 at 22:37

ots3go said:
It's the frequency the cable has to carry in order to achieve the desired speed, so to speak.

250mhz is needed for gigabit whilst 10gigabit requires 500mhz over 100m. [iirc]

Ah, so it will work just it's complete overkill? :rolleyes:

Deception · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:01

sehcure said:
Ah, so it will work just it's complete overkill?

Just a bit

sehcure · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:14

Deception said:
Just a bit

Seeing as it's going 20-30 metres, on a router with an average speed of 30 mbps i'd say definitely after seeing 500+mhz is for 10gigabit over long distances :rolleyes:

Ah well!