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How do you live with yourself? You need Cat8 now!
:p
I also have 1gb down 1gb up fiber at my house. I built the house with Cat6 running everywhere. When the fiber company installed the ONT(router) they used Cat5e when converting from fiber to ethernet.
I get 950-980mbps up and down.
Also, spec compliant copper cabling allows for CAT 5e up to 100m at 1Gbps (2.5Gbps & 5Gbps also possible due to new spec lowering the signaling rate). CAT 6A is designed for up to 100m at 10Gbps. CAT 6 is generally not deployed if 10Gbps support is planned because it's only designed for 10Gbps at reduce lengths (~55m). CAT 6A or fiber would be the preferred choice for 10Gbps.
For home use edge cases, Cat6A is more than enough. For most home users, Cat5e is all you need, and if you're running something in a wall, by all means, future proof it with Cat6 (10Gbps up to 180ft/55m) or Cat6A (330ft/100m).
As of 2019 some equipment has been introduced which has connectors supporting the Class F (Category 7) channel.
Note, however, that Category 7 is not recognized by the TIA/EIA at the time of this writing.
As of 2017 there is no equipment that has connectors supporting the Class FA (Category 7A) channel.
Category 7A is not recognized in TIA/EIA.
Anyways, there's no point in buying a Cat8 cable, and considering it's UGreen shilling, it might actually be worse than a good Cat5e/6/6A cable.
If you're running your own wiring, you're buying a roll of plenum rated Cat6A anyways, and if you're Joe Sixpack buying patch cables, just grab Cat5e...
When upload speeds measured in hundreds or even dozens of megabits become common in the US, let me know! Those of us with symmetrical fiber are in the top 1% of the 1% when it comes to Internet speeds in this third world country. If people are "lucky" enough to have cable, they've got what, 20 Mbps tops?
And guess what? I was too lazy to replace the 10m or so of flat Cat5e I ran across my apartment to my desktop when I upgraded parts of my home network to 10GigE, so I just kept it in use. Both ends (NIC and Netgear switch) support 2.5/5GBASET, so it just auto-negotiated at 5 Gbps with no intervention necessary...
40GBASE-T is a port type for 4-pair balanced twisted-pair Cat.8 copper cabling up to 30 m defined in IEEE 802.3bq.[118] IEEE 802.3bq-2016 standard was approved by The IEEE-SA Standards Board on June 30, 2016.[119] It uses 16-level PAM signaling over four lanes at 3,200 MBaud each, scaled up from 10GBASE-T.
There are no devices on the market that support it even though the standard exists.
But if you're rocking some of the new(ish) 1 or 2 Gbps Fiber connections, you minimally want Cat 6 installed, and especially if you're hardwiring anything. Go ahead and go run some speedtests.
Don't take my word for it, you can find all the info you need all over the internet.
I don't know how you got so many up votes for a completely false statement claiming to be an expert while simultaneously stating that cat5e can only to 100Mbps. cat5e can do 1000Mbps just fine, the only time you want cat6 is if you are doing long runs like wiring your house for Ethernet, the 6ft cable mentioned here is not a long run. On top of it, the product here is a cat8 cable, pretty much useless for any home user and typically only used in data centers.
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I've owned a handful of Ugreen cables over the last two years including an almost $100 fiber optic HDMI cable and they've been great so far. I think the Cat8 thing is a little silly but the $100 cable at the time was the cheapest on the market and it's done its job fantastically.
For home use edge cases, Cat6A is more than enough. For most home users, Cat5e is all you need, and if you're running something in a wall, by all means, future proof it with Cat6 (10Gbps up to 180ft/55m) or Cat6A (330ft/100m).
That was for Cat7 with TERA [wikipedia.org] connectors.
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Anyways, there's no point in buying a Cat8 cable, and considering it's UGreen shilling, it might actually be worse than a good Cat5e/6/6A cable.
If you're running your own wiring, you're buying a roll of plenum rated Cat6A anyways, and if you're Joe Sixpack buying patch cables, just grab Cat5e...
When upload speeds measured in hundreds or even dozens of megabits become common in the US, let me know! Those of us with symmetrical fiber are in the top 1% of the 1% when it comes to Internet speeds in this third world country. If people are "lucky" enough to have cable, they've got what, 20 Mbps tops?
And guess what? I was too lazy to replace the 10m or so of flat Cat5e I ran across my apartment to my desktop when I upgraded parts of my home network to 10GigE, so I just kept it in use. Both ends (NIC and Netgear switch) support 2.5/5GBASET, so it just auto-negotiated at 5 Gbps with no intervention necessary...
Docsis 3.1 does gigabit down, not symmetrical though. Mines 40 Mbps up I think, with Xfinity.
Though if you somehow have a connection faster than 1 Gbps, then sure, upgrade to Cat 6. The price difference is negligible, and it allows you to futureproof yourself.
just as an FYI in our area at least our cable vendor doesn't even carry cat 5e. he said if a customer asks for 5e they just install cheapo thickkkk cat 6
But if you're rocking some of the new(ish) 1 or 2 Gbps Fiber connections, you minimally want Cat 6 installed, and especially if you're hardwiring anything. Go ahead and go run some speedtests.
Don't take my word for it, you can find all the info you need all over the internet.
So it seems your statement isn't entirely accurate. YIPES.
I purchased a yet another generic Cat6 cable (with better reviews on Amazon) and I finally get 200 Mbps on WiFi.
So cable quality matters, now if the run was say only 10 ft, I am pretty sure Cat5e would have worked just fine around 200 Mbps, but not if I had internet speed of 1Gbps…
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For home use edge cases, Cat6A is more than enough. For most home users, Cat5e is all you need, and if you're running something in a wall, by all means, future proof it with Cat6 (10Gbps up to 180ft/55m) or Cat6A (330ft/100m).
That was for Cat7 with TERA [wikipedia.org] connectors.
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Anyways, there's no point in buying a Cat8 cable, and considering it's UGreen shilling, it might actually be worse than a good Cat5e/6/6A cable.
If you're running your own wiring, you're buying a roll of plenum rated Cat6A anyways, and if you're Joe Sixpack buying patch cables, just grab Cat5e...
When upload speeds measured in hundreds or even dozens of megabits become common in the US, let me know! Those of us with symmetrical fiber are in the top 1% of the 1% when it comes to Internet speeds in this third world country. If people are "lucky" enough to have cable, they've got what, 20 Mbps tops?
And guess what? I was too lazy to replace the 10m or so of flat Cat5e I ran across my apartment to my desktop when I upgraded parts of my home network to 10GigE, so I just kept it in use. Both ends (NIC and Netgear switch) support 2.5/5GBASET, so it just auto-negotiated at 5 Gbps with no intervention necessary...
You know why our internet is slow? It's because infrastructure for such a sparsely populated country is high. That's right USA is one of the least densely populated countries per square mile. We are so lucky that we don't live on top of each other in shoe boxes, even if it does keep us from having high speed fiber at everyone's house!
but yeah, I wish I could get fiber LOL.