Ordered a cheap 5M Cat5e CCA patch cable to connect a PC directly to a router at gigabit speeds. Later found out CCA is crap but I shouldn’t have a problem getting a gigabit with it over 5M. It’s only a few quid so not the end of the world if it’s *****, it’s not like I’m wiring up the whole place with it.
5M Cat5e CCA patch cable
- Thread starter nlel1975
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Soldato
CCA is only crap if you’re trying to crimp it. It’ll be fine on a short length on preterm patch cables.
Bit of a frying pan and fire moment here really, it’s not going to really matter over 5m but flat cables don’t have the pairs twisted around each other and don’t perform as well as round cables. But again, it won’t matter for 1Gb and 5 metres.
Received the cable today and plugged it into my Mac, at first I was only getting 100 Megabit per second. I'd read one review on Amazon saying that the cable wasn't capable of more than 100 Megabit per second.
So I went into the network options on my Mac and there was a setting to change it from 100BASE-T to 1000BASE-T after that I got this speed test result...
I've never had to do anything like that on my Windows machine and I'm guessing the reviewer who left a 1 star review stating it was only capable of 100 Megabit per second was a Mac user.
So I went into the network options on my Mac and there was a setting to change it from 100BASE-T to 1000BASE-T after that I got this speed test result...
I've never had to do anything like that on my Windows machine and I'm guessing the reviewer who left a 1 star review stating it was only capable of 100 Megabit per second was a Mac user.
Soldato
Never had to do that on my Mac.
Strange I had to manually set it to 1000baseT as it was set to 100baseT by default hence why I was getting speed test results of 100 Megabit per second over the cable...
I've just tried changing it to automatic and it stays at 1000baseT speeds. All I know is if I hadn't gone in and manually changed the settings there was no way I was getting gigabit speeds over the cable.