tldr: what cable do I need to use ??
Hiya folks, I have over the last week had shiny fibre installed (at long last...been waiting years) ...anyhoo, my 21 yr old lads bedroom is on the first floor and he has always insisted that he has latency issues when gaming on wireless, understandable I suppose, so I installed him an ethernet cable I had off a chap at work.
At the time my conection speed was about 11 mbps...and he received about 7 mbps, which he has been happy with for the last few years. Now I have 78 mbps, he only receives 10 mbps through his ethernet, so I presume his cable is of the incorrect spec (not that clued up on cable tbh).
So I am about to purchase some fresh new cable and would obviously like to buy the correct one. Have just perused the bay to see cat 5, cat 5e, cat 6 and cat 7 and a quick goole suggests that any should work the same, bar maybe the cat 5, as it does not, officially, support 1 gbps speeds, the only other difference I see is in the mhz speeds. There is also a suggestion that CCA (copper coated aluminium) is a poor version too but...any truth to this ?
Is this likely to be the issue, wrong cable, I am beginning to doubt it very much. The only other thing that maybe could be an issue I suppose, is his cable got sheared a while back and I hard wired the strands back together, insulating them sufficiently.
For info, he connected wirelessly and received 76 mbps.
Thanks for your time
Hiya folks, I have over the last week had shiny fibre installed (at long last...been waiting years) ...anyhoo, my 21 yr old lads bedroom is on the first floor and he has always insisted that he has latency issues when gaming on wireless, understandable I suppose, so I installed him an ethernet cable I had off a chap at work.
At the time my conection speed was about 11 mbps...and he received about 7 mbps, which he has been happy with for the last few years. Now I have 78 mbps, he only receives 10 mbps through his ethernet, so I presume his cable is of the incorrect spec (not that clued up on cable tbh).
So I am about to purchase some fresh new cable and would obviously like to buy the correct one. Have just perused the bay to see cat 5, cat 5e, cat 6 and cat 7 and a quick goole suggests that any should work the same, bar maybe the cat 5, as it does not, officially, support 1 gbps speeds, the only other difference I see is in the mhz speeds. There is also a suggestion that CCA (copper coated aluminium) is a poor version too but...any truth to this ?
Is this likely to be the issue, wrong cable, I am beginning to doubt it very much. The only other thing that maybe could be an issue I suppose, is his cable got sheared a while back and I hard wired the strands back together, insulating them sufficiently.
For info, he connected wirelessly and received 76 mbps.
Thanks for your time
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