5M Cat5e CCA patch cable

nlel1975 · 31 Dec 2024 at 20:56

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.

nlel1975 · 1 Jan 2025 at 20:24

Managed to cancel the order and ordered a 6M Cat6 Flat full copper cable instead, it was only 17p more expensive. The CCA cable would’ve probably been fine but I wasn’t totally happy with it.

nlel1975 · Thursday at 09:50

I was lucky I was able to cancel, had yesterday been a working day it would have been dispatched.

nlel1975 · Monday at 13:49

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.

nlel1975 · Monday at 18:49

Steveocee said:
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.