Atleast it’s future proof
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Presi300@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CAT8 40MB/s
I think you went a but overkill with that one, high quality CAT6 cables would have done the same job, but hey, if it works, it works.
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 month ago
TCB13@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The future of ethernet is not expensive cabling, more like switches capable of doing more on current cables. We’ve been seeing this trend for a while.
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 month ago
I know, I was just tryna point out the silver lining
hedidwot@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
High quality cat 5e weighs have done the job.
Original cables must have been faulty.
Presi300@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, all of my cables are CAT 5e and I can easily pull a gigabit down and up from my NAS… Which has a gigabit NIC, so ig you’re right.
hedidwot@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you’d have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.
It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.
It was only beyond gig that you’d need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don’t do it).