Cat 7 or Cat 6a?

I have Cat6 in my old place which was perfectly fine. The cost difference for 6a was not much, so was fine with it. Obviously all parts are 6a rated!
 
ginjaninja said:
Can any foresee a need to be above 1Gb/s in the home? Id spend the money on quality install and easily mantained runs.
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10Ge works over cat5e anyway over the short run lengths typically found in a domestic dwelling. My house is fairly large and yet doesnt contain any runs much longer than around 20-30m over which distance i would expect cat5e to perform perfectly with 10G.

Cat6, 6a, 7, overkill in a domestic environment. A commercial premises will often contain huge runs hence the importance of these new cabling types.
 
Proper certified cat5e may support 10GigE on short enough runs but I bet you most cable quality bought and installed in the home environment would not. A lot of cabling meets cat5e certification (likely only JUST) but I would have my reservations about using it for a serious 10GigE network.

I had to replace cat5e cable runs with...better....cat5e cable in our house because they would not negotiate a 1Gbit connection, nevermind 10gigE.
 
Was all finished today (Cat 6a). Cost all of £60 for 100m and ended up using around one 100m reel, as the UFTP variant.

Whilst I agree 6a is way beyond what I need, cost wise was fine.
 
The biggest thing that I find with standards like 6a over 6 isn't the cost of the cabling really, it's the patch panels and modules and near enough doubling the time required to work with it. It definitely adds up.
 
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