Quick check; Cat6a is pointless for short patch cables right?

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When we renovated our house I made the electrician put in Cat6A to the office and loft. Now that I have full fibre (900Mbps) from Sky I'm just upgrading my patch cables everywhere as I'm sick of all of the crappy hand-me-down/falling apart cables I have kicking around with no idea what they all are.

I just need lengths of 0.25m to max 2m to wire up devices next to the router in the lounge (AppleTV, Sky box etc.) and then from the wall socket in the office to my PC, work Macbook and NAS.

Just a sense check, there's literally no point getting Cat6a for this use right> Max 2m length but most are 0.5/1m.

TIA.
 
I have OCD so for me, if you have Cat6A already, I'd want to keep it the same. You mention you are sick of the hand me downs and random falling apart cables already, so why start to mix them again. :p Cat6A isn't overly expensive and is still quite bendy and usable. I know what you are saying though due to the lengths, but yeah I'd want to make them all the same lol. Ubiquiti Premium Patch cable, 0.3m is £5.40 inc. VAT. Or startech do a 0.5m for £6.61. etc etc.
 
Heh well I've been building a multicoloured basket at Kenable (anyone got a discount code?) :D

I have a spot of OCD as well but it's pretty clear there's no need for Cat6a at such short lengths, from what I've read. To be honest I barely trusted our electrician; he was really grumpy. So who knows if he installed Cat6a or saved himself a few pennies and installed Cat6 instead thinking I wouldn't notice :o Even though I told him a million times it has to be Cat6a. I am getting 900Mbps+ on my speed tests (wired) but I'm not sure how long the run is from the router, up the front of the house, through the loft floor/ceiling and back into the office here. It's probably <50m...
 
As long as we're talking copper and not CCA, 5e is all you need, go stranded for patch leads as they can flex more easily, and i've run 10Gb over it 5e at much longer distances than your patch leads for may years without issue.
 
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