haldir Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Just curious as I seen one tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcsoul Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Only worth it if your entire wired network is gigabit, and don't expect 1 gigabit transfer rates on your network... the gigabit identifier is for bandwidth and not speed... actual speeds will be a little over 100 megabits (~12-15 megabytes/sec in my experience) So unless you do regular transfers of large files over your wired LAN, and have a gigabit ethernet card and switch/router, don't bother just stick with cat 5e for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorderl Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 If your buying Cat cable, and you can get the Cat6 at roughly the same price as the Cat5, i say do so in the event you forsee the need for gigbit down the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcsoul Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 That's true... cat6 cables should (depends where you go to get gouged) cost you almost the same as any cat5e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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