Do I need CAT5 or CAT6?
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Cat5e will be fine.
Don't use Cat5 (although you'd have difficulty even finding it knowadays).
Cat5e will handle Gigabit at 100m, and possibly 10GbE over shorter distances.
No real advantage to Cat6. It's certainly not worth ripping Cat5e out to replace it with Cat6.
Don't use Cat5 (although you'd have difficulty even finding it knowadays).
Cat5e will handle Gigabit at 100m, and possibly 10GbE over shorter distances.
No real advantage to Cat6. It's certainly not worth ripping Cat5e out to replace it with Cat6.
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Fires? Even with PoE and a dead short I can't see how a network cable could cause a fire.
Is this something that has actually happened?
Is this something that has actually happened?
Yes. Copper-Clad-Aluminium is very commonly sold to consumers and heck I even see electricians using it from the wholesalers. It was never ever designed to carry power and we're seeing a huge surge in PoE. It doesn't have the heat dissipation of solid copper and thus can cause fires, better yet most of it is also PVC and not LSOH.
No, cat5e.
cat5e it is 
o.O
I'd be very concerned if you had any commercial experience. CCA is not compliant to any of the standards I'm aware of. I've come across it a few times before and it fails tests. Mainly in electricans installs where we're deploying hardware, we'll always tend to run a certification test on the cabling as a demarcation check. Always comes and bites them where it hurts when they get charged rectification day rates on work thats completed
You mean that the unshielded/unflitered flat "Cat7" cables on Amazon aren't actually Cat7? /shock
