Author Topic: gigabit ethernet (Read 226 times)

rabbidrabbit · « **on:** January 12, 2007, 11:06:15 AM »

Silly question but.. gig over copper requires cat 6 or cat 5e ?

MoeRon · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2007, 11:10:45 AM »

If Cat 6A (Augmented) installed (not the original Cat 6), will run 10
Gig. Cat 5E will only run up to 1 Gig and i have no idea what i just said.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2007, 11:13:16 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet

According to wiki... cat 5 will work fine too? I have not messed with GigE for years and Just want to make sure.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2007, 01:17:20 PM »

If you have a gigabit capable switch/router then any old ethernet cable should do practically speaking. You do have Gbit router right?

sluggish · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2007, 01:25:26 PM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
If you have a gigabit capable switch/router then any old ethernet cable should do practically speaking. You do have Gbit router right?

That was my thought but I'm too uninformed to comment. Don't most ethernet cards/routers run at 100 mps? Still, there has be a physical limit to the transfer rate, doesn't there?

Halo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2007, 01:27:14 PM »

I don't know what it is, but it sounds big and powerful and I want it!

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2007, 02:11:28 PM »

ya... just bought one and was not certain that standard cat 5 was ok. I thought it was but wasn't sure. Initially the only GigE I dealt with was over Fibre.

wasq · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2007, 03:11:12 PM »

I had CAT5 cables, bought gigabit switch, didn't work fullspeed. I needed to re-cable with CAT6, now it works at full speed. So CAT5 is definately not enough. With my old (3-4 yrs) cat5 cables I managed only about same speeds as with my old 100mbit switch.