I'm a dreaded IT geek by trade. I always spec CAT5e unless the client specifies otherwise. I find it is still less expensive than CAT6 and easier to work with. It's plenty fine for 99% of the small businesses that I work with, now and into the future. Most of their apps are going to the "cloud" anyway, so even less data being transmitted back and forth. I personally don't see the reason to keep stringing copper along with new specs every few years. Just go fiber and be done with it. Then you just change out the optics on the end for whatever faster specs come out. Glass doesn't change too much.
Last edited by hawk82; 09/19/16 08:39 PM.
