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1. How fast can a cat5E cable run at 100 feet

2. How fast can a cat 6 cable run at 247 feet?

Thanks for your responces

What type of construction? Empty office or open for business? Existing cable support/pathways, or need to install??

Best case scenario would be grid ceiling with tiles removed, existing pathways and conduit running down to existing wall boxes. In that case, termination takes longer than running the cable. I'd say 20-25 minutes for the 100' Cat5e, including termination and testing.


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-Steve

You'd have to test each to see the exact speed, other factors come into play also, such as connection, panels, bend radius and others. For rating just do a search on google for cat5 and 6 speeds and you'll find a wealth of information.

the building is drop tile ceiling sheet rock walls conduit from jack to 90 degree bend in ceiling, patch panel is lev cat6+ accessable thru ceiling there are no lights or tiles in place just grid

My time was 13 minutes on the cat five and 27 minutes on the cat6 including tests

the cat5 tested at 350mhz clean and the cat6 tested at 550mhz clean but above those numbers did not look all that great

any thoughts on how to improve the testing speeds? I think the install time was good

what brand cable......

how far did you undo the twists........

how tight did you apply the tie wraps to on the patch panel.......

Theoretically 5e should run up to 350 MHZ and cat6 should run up to 500 MHZ. Cat 6 technically is suppose to support Gigabit Ethernet which is 1000MBPS. The longer the cable the more resistance, which means less speed. Those lenghts are not to bad.

Berk-tek cable leviton cat6+ 12 port panel lev cat6 jacks. about a 16th between cable shield and terminations on jacks, at the panel about .25 on the shield no twist loss
tie wraps are not crusing the shield they are about finger tight, if needed I could get 3 more cables in the tie wrap before stain

I see the 550 test on the cat6 is better that expected but I have no way to test the 1000 speed

Oops, thought the question was "how fast could it be installed"!

In any case, both of those runs will easily support gigabit ethernet. They're both testing well over requirements.



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-Steve

Ah! that was the answer I was looking for. Thanks for the quick responses.

I guess the point is I dont need to run cat6 when cat5e will do the same job

"I guess the point is I dont need to run cat6 when cat5e will do the same job"

Unless you want to prepare for the future.