cat 5e treashold?

[rallyslag]

Virgin have just upgraded a little . On my cat5e i am getting 160.45 mbps . I am very surprised it can handle this .. Either a monitoring anomaly or a very happy person .. I do not want to rewire the house just yet !!!

 

[bledd]

cat5e supports up to 1000mbps, possibly even 10000mbps in short runs.

 

[Terrier_Jimlad]

I am very surprised it can handle this

Errmmm why?

 

[APM]

how do you define a short run in this context?

 

[tom_e]

*[/COLOR]***;27580065]Virgin have just upgraded a little . On my cat5e i am getting 160.45 mbps . I am very surprised it can handle this .. Either a monitoring anomaly or a very happy person .. I do not want to rewire the house just yet !!!

Even wireless can come close to that these days, I'm not sure why you're surprised that cat5e can handle it

 

[rallyslag]

Doh!
Sorry all .I had a beer last night and had lost all my decimal places in the excitement of something free from virgin

 

[Terrier_Jimlad]

how do you define a short run in this context?

The general rule of thumb is

Cat5e:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 45 meters

Cat6:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 55 meters

Cat6a:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters


But I've pushed cat5 beyond this threshold and had no issues. Max I could sustain the 1Gbps was around 126m

 

[andicole0]

*[/COLOR]***;27580065]Virgin have just upgraded a little . On my cat5e i am getting 160.45 mbps . I am very surprised it can handle this .. Either a monitoring anomaly or a very happy person .. I do not want to rewire the house just yet !!!

The 160mbps is the WAN speed to your modem/router, your LAN will be much faster.

Andi.

 

[APM]

The general rule of thumb is

Cat5e:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 45 meters

Cat6:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 55 meters

Cat6a:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters


But I've pushed cat5 beyond this threshold and had no issues. Max I could sustain the 1Gbps was around 126m

nice one but is this for straight runs or are there a few corners involved?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get a 10 Gigabit network card at a reasonable price but,of course,then there are the switches too...

 

[bledd]

These are rough numbers plucked from a random website.

(One's that I've posted here before)

Build quality can vary a lot between what's on the market, so I'd use it as a guideline. The more cats the better meow

 

[pantbash]

nice one but is this for straight runs or are there a few corners involved?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get a 10 Gigabit network card at a reasonable price but,of course,then there are the switches too...

You should be able to bend 10Gb twisted pair about without too many problems.
I think most of the loss comes from crappy shielding and connectors.

Can't think of any reaon you would need residential 10Gb at the moment though, apart from boasting points

 

[Sin_Chase]

I've just wired up the house in cat5e. One of the rooms already had some cabling that only had a single pair used for a telephone socket. I re-purposed it to RJ45 rather than making another run...only connected at 100mbit after trying to negotiate a speed for 30 seconds.

Was clearly the crappiest cabling known to man when the building was refurbished or makes a ridiculous run past power/interference.

Re-ran my own cat5e and got lovely gigabit

Now I just need a damn FTTH install date

 

[Skiddley]

I considered 6a as part of a major renovation but the bend radii and cable diameters put me off. Went with 5e ftp. It's hard enough wiring modular ports in 35mm boxes without having thicker cables to fight with.