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Kelt said:
Seems Cat 8 is a thing.

CAT 8​

Category 8 is the official successor to Cat6A cabling. It is officially recognized by the IEEE and EIA and parts and pieces are standardized across manufacturers. The primary benefit of Cat8 cabling is faster throughput over short distances: 40 Gbps up to 78’ and 25 Gbps up to 100’. From 100’ to 328’, Cat8 provides the same 10Gbps throughput as Cat6A cabling.

Due to these distance limitations, the best use case for Cat8 would be inside a data center to connect network equipment to each other. It would not be cost-effective to use Cat8 for an office build out as the distance would quickly decrease the speed throughput to that of Cat6A, which is cheaper to procure and install for the same performance.
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Yes, but as I said:

Rainmaker said:
Cat8 isn't a real thing, certainly for home deployment.
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'Cat 7' and 'Cat 8' on certain shopping sites are likely copper coated aluminium junk that went overly heavy on the marketing (because 8 is bigger than 6 and 5, amirite?).
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Show me a 'cat 8' cable the average home user buys because '8 is better than 5' and I'll show you something you may as well not bother plugging in... And at the point of being repetitious, for a home ~1G connection (or even 10G or 20G) it's absolutely pointless. What people think they're buying when they get a cheap 'cat 8' cable from $shopping_site is not, in fact, a to-spec cable made with quality, performance or conformity in mind. Buying a recognised, pure copper, branded cat 5e or 6 cable, will pull 10G all day without blinking. Why bother?
 
I have long run CAT6 cables and I regret buying them, wonder 5e would have done the job, they really thick and inflexible, and still have all the original twists in them since they are packed in a loop.
 
Looks like topcashback has worked, see £197 pending. Just need to wait for new contract to start now, will need to call them to stop sending out the engineer and new equipment.

Should have £400 added to new contract, didn't want the xbox s deal so should be paying roughly £65 per month if all works out well much better then £120-£130 if I switched to sky, BT, Community Fibre.

I will just have to come on here and moan when it goes offline, which will be every 5 minutes :D
 
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Cut a single gang box into the ceiling and put the AP over the top of that, don't try and fish a wire through a tiny hole.

Depending on the location you may need to use a fireproof box.
 
chrcoluk said:
I have long run CAT6 cables
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and still have all the original twists in them since they are packed in a loop.
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I've just finished my cat5 to cat6 upgrade, long runs etc.
If you have twists in the cable then you are doing it wrong.
My cable arrived off the spool and in shrinkwrap.
You have you untwist as you fix / lay it in place.
 
Does anyone know how the disconnection date works, do they disconnect you 12 midnight or knowing virgin media randomly in the afternoon?
 
Caged said:
Cut a single gang box into the ceiling and put the AP over the top of that, don't try and fish a wire through a tiny hole.

Depending on the location you may need to use a fireproof box.
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If that was for me thanks for the sage advise. I pulled a new 10mtr cat6 cable into the loft £15.99 for my backhaul then ran a small good quality cat5e cable from my switch to cAP.
 
Question: Anyone done the new contract same house under new name, were there any issues?

Mainly I did it because even calling me on a bank holiday and refering to me as a platinum customer the deals they offered were £5-£10 a month worse than for new customers.

Secondary reason was a legitimate desire to have it in a new name having been mucked about trying to do that far too often
 
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DavidTJ said:
Question: Anyone done the new contract same house under new name, were there any issues?

Mainly I did it because even calling me on a bank holiday and refering to me as a platinum customer the deals they offered were £5-£10 a month worse than for new customers.

Secondary reason was a legitimate desire to have it in a new name having been mucked about trying to do that far too often
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I had to do the "switch to partner" last year as even after pulling out all the stops with call back retentions the offer was worse than new contracts.

The broadband and TV switch went fine and the new service started the day after the contract ended in partners name. I even managed to eventually get to somebody in tech support who knew what they were doing and change it so I kept the original 360 STB (with all our recordings on) and send back the new one.

The mobile switch was a disaster and they ended up over charging me by >£100 and it took 5 months to get my money back - they still owe me £4! :)
 
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MartinPrince said:
I had to do the "switch to partner" last year as even after pulling out all the stops with call back retentions the offer was worse than new contracts.

The broadband and TV switch went fine and the new service started the day after the contract ended in partners name. I even managed to eventually get to somebody in tech support who knew what they were doing and change it so I kept the original 360 STB (with all our recordings on) and send back the new one.

The mobile switch was a disaster and they ended up over charging me by >£100 and it took 5 months to get my money back - they still owe me £4! :)
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Okay so some reassurance some nightmare. I have the start up date a week early. So paying more but didn't want to be without if they messed it up

I had visions of them just cancelling the new service delivery with no warning being told to put up with paying double or go somewhere else.

If I am messed around on this I will probably just stuff it and pay much more for Zen Internet. Don't care about TV so don't need one of Sky Virgin or BT. Last 2 cancellation negotiations have been terrible.
 
DavidTJ said:
If I am messed around on this I will probably just stuff it and pay much more for Zen Internet.
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Have a read into their recent antics. They've changed their model to favouring the number of customers over properly decent customer service and tech support. Then there's their joke of a network...
 
DavidTJ said:
I have the start up date a week early. So paying more but didn't want to be without if they messed it up
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When you say a week early do you mean a week before your old (partner) contract ends so that they overlap? If so then that won't happen as mine was similar but even though it was down to start a certain date the new equipment was changed to be delivered the day after the old contract ended. You can't have two contracts open at the same address at the same time.
 
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MartinPrince said:
When you say a week early do you mean a week before your old (partner) contract ends so that they overlap? If so then that won't happen as mine was similar but even though it was down to start a certain date the new equipment was changed to be delivered the day after the old contract ended. You can't have two contracts open at the same address at the same time.
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Yes so the other contract runs out like first week of may so I had put down today as a provisional datay. This may explain why I haven't heard anything from them.
 
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