There are many different types of ethernet cables, each fulfilling a specific purpose. If you were browsing the internet in the 90s, you likely used a Category 3 cable to facilitate your connection.
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Those fancy Ethernet cable labels are misleading — here's what Cat5e, Cat6, and Cat6A actually do
Over the past few months, I've been trying to educate myself a bit further in the world of networking. It's a complex, convoluted, but incredibly interesting part of the tech world that I never paid ...
Every so often, we get questions from people who plan to install Ethernet cable in their homes. The most frequent question we get is, "what's the difference between Cat 5e and Cat 6 cable, and which ...
I was looking at this page for some bulk cat5e... I knew there was cat5 and cat5e, but I thought all cat5e was supposed to work with gigabit ethernet... Why is some of it labled 100MHz and some of it ...
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Swapping two cheap Ethernet cables doubled network speeds overnight
A simple Ethernet cable swap revealed the real bottleneck and unlocked faster network performance.
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