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"Looking at that, fiber has to be cheaper and easier."
-Hal
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Fiber is cheaper - the electronics are not.
Prices for fibre network cards and switches are astronomical (at least the last time I looked).
Sam Easy enough to fix. When they see my charges for installing CAT7 or 8 the cost of fiber even with the expensive electronics will look like a bargain.  -Hal
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Thanks for the closeup of the cable printing. I can see that it is CMR 24 AWG stranded. I suspect this is category 5a because it is using 24 AWG wire not the thicker 23 AWG wire required for Cat 6x.
It says "Gigaflex" but I believe 5a is rated for gigabit ethernet. What is Cat 5a and Cat 6x?
Patrick T. Caezza
Santa Paula, CA 93060
C-7 - Low Voltage System Contractor - Lic# 992448
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Vaya con Dios amigos!
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Cat- X has to be the best thing for us since the bottom is dropping/has dropped out of the equipment market.
Every couple of years you've got to rip out and replace the wiring! Joy!
Why do corporations feel they need faster and faster networks?
Type out "The quick brown fox..." and save it in Notepad, Wordpad and MS Word. No embellishments, Now look at the difference in the size of the files.
Email used to be plain text. Now no one sends anything that's not in Word with enough fonts and pictures to look like a ransom note.
Celebrate this! It's keeping you in business.
Sam
Last edited by Silversam; 09/05/16 06:55 AM.
"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"
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After a little checking I found out that you can now run 2.5GBase-T (2.5 gigabits per second) on cat 5e copper cable. You can run up to 5GBase-T on category 6 cable and up to 10GBase-T on category 6a cable. All of these are rated for up to 100 meters of cable length.
Yo can also run 10GBase-T on Category 6 up to 50 meters.
All of this is from the encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Of course you need to have the matching terminations and not untwist the cable ends too much etc.
Last edited by Butch Cassidy; 09/05/16 10:22 AM.
Vaya con Dios amigos!
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