the same thing ?

Yeah cat5 is the cable. I actually bought a box/reel of the stuff ages ago. Uses were two fold.....one I rewired all the phone extensions in my house with it to reduce the noise I had on the line and secondly to make network cable. Just cut of the length I need and crimp on the connectors.

If you wanted to get a reel it might be best to look for cat6 cable now
 
Just one thing to keep in mind is if when you say you are running it up to the top of your house and may be going outside with it. Then i would advise getting external cable if its going to be in place for some years. Internal Cat5/e cable degrades quite quickly out in the elements.

Also there is really no need for Cat6 as you will never ever get anywhere close to its bandwidth capacity. Not even Cat5e. I'm a network installer and have only once in all my years seen a customer use Cat5e to its full capacity. Then they just went Fibre as their switches already had fibre ports in them. Fibre cabling is just as cheap as copper. It's the ends and equipment that costs.

One other thing ideally is to use "patch cable" when putting RJ45's on the end because it is multi-stranded unlike "drop cable" which is single core. It does work 99% of the time with drop cable, just that 1% chance that the crimping crushes one of the cores.

Edit: just looked at what you linked OP. and they're fine. Just be aware if going outside with them at any point in the run ;)
 
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foster grant said:
No....the cable?s will be internal :)...from my Virgin Media Superhub to two upstairs Computers :)

we get 60Meg Fibre Optic
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Hey, all good then :)


Oh! And it is only fibre to the DP in your street. From there its coax. I hate it how they advertise "Fibre network". When in reality its a Fibre backbone.
 
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Digit said:
Hey, all good then :)


Oh! And it is only fibre to the DP in your street. From there its coax. I hate it how they advertise "Fibre network". When in reality its a Fibre backbone.
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yeah we found that out just after we got in installed lol.....still they did at the time increase it from 30 to 60 free of charge , the mrs is a dab hand on the phone :D
 
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yeah we found that out just after we got in installed lol.....still they did at the time increase it from 30 to 60 free of charge , the mrs is a dab hand on the phone :D
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Hehe. Good on yer missus. I'm the one in our house that rings them ever 3 months to see what i can get out of them at the time. Got 60Mb myself with phone (evening & weekends) and family pack TV for just under £30 per month.

Service has been spot on for many years.
 
Digit said:
Oh! And it is only fibre to the DP in your street. From there its coax. I hate it how they advertise "Fibre network". When in reality its a Fibre backbone.
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Indeed. It seems to mislead a lot of people. Nothing wrong with calling it a cable modem service.
 
Here is something that made me so mad. Before we moved, the road maybe a mile away had a fibre line & that same town had to deal with dial up until 2008ish & when they put in a wireless ISP we lived behind a hill, the sig. couldn't get to us. We talked to a worker, to have him put in a repeater down the road, he never did it. Plus my dad knew someone who couldn't get DSL, cause it stopped next door!!!
 
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