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Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: rabbidrabbit on January 12, 2007, 11:06:15 AM

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

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: MoeRon 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.

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: rabbidrabbit 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.

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] 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? :p

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: sluggish on January 12, 2007, 01:25:26 PM

Quote

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? :p

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?

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: Halo 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!

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: rabbidrabbit 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.

Title: gigabit ethernet
Post by: wasq 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.