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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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 Posted - 10 July 2005 : 16:55:05
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| I'll be wiring a house for ethernet coming up here in a couple weeks, and I was trying to decide between cat5 and cat6 cable. Because of the placement of the outlets in the house, we may have computers as far apart as 75 horizontal feet. I know that standard cat5 cables start losing signal quality after a certain distance, so I was thinking about going with cat6. My question is, will there be any significant benefit to this? We will be on a cable connection (6mbps/512kbps). Also, since this will be my first time making my own cable, I'd like to know if it's as simple a procedure as it seems. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 10 July 2005 : 23:46:00
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Cat5e should work fine for you. Max length of 100 meters. It will go over that but you are not guaranteed stability and speed. Cat5e will support gigabit as well. I don't think you need to buy Cat6 unless the price is almost identical. And yes, crimping on rj-45 ends is easy.
I use the following wire order which is somewhat of a standard.
Orange/White
Orange
Green/White
Blue
Blue/White
Green
Brown/White
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Erick
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 11 July 2005 : 00:43:41
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| Thanks much, Erick. I've always known it should be really cheap to make my own cables... just never got around to actually sitting down and doing it. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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rpainter
Junior Member
USA
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 11 July 2005 : 11:55:49
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| Wow... that may be something I go with. Thanks for the link. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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