Originally Posted by Chris Frost:
“That's a very good question.
Price wise Cat-6 is roughly double the cost of Cat-5e, but that's not the whole story. (Cat-7 is 10x the price of Cat-5e
)
Officially Cat-5e is suitable for 10/100 base networks and you need Cat-6 for 10/100/1000 base (Gigabit). In reality you'll often find that Cat-5e works satisfactorily for Gigabit too. I'm currently running a Gigabit network over Cat-5e at home.
Cat-5e has a bandwidth of 100MHz, Cat-6 is 250Mhz. The extra bandwidth should give less errors.
I think it's worth considering Cat-6 if you take the long view. It's more future proof, but don't expect to get away with running one Cat-6 instead of two Cat-5e. HD baluns are still going to need two connections each end whether its Cat-5e or Cat-6.”
“That's a very good question.
Price wise Cat-6 is roughly double the cost of Cat-5e, but that's not the whole story. (Cat-7 is 10x the price of Cat-5e
)Officially Cat-5e is suitable for 10/100 base networks and you need Cat-6 for 10/100/1000 base (Gigabit). In reality you'll often find that Cat-5e works satisfactorily for Gigabit too. I'm currently running a Gigabit network over Cat-5e at home.
Cat-5e has a bandwidth of 100MHz, Cat-6 is 250Mhz. The extra bandwidth should give less errors.
I think it's worth considering Cat-6 if you take the long view. It's more future proof, but don't expect to get away with running one Cat-6 instead of two Cat-5e. HD baluns are still going to need two connections each end whether its Cat-5e or Cat-6.”
2 cables no longer necessary Chris. HDMI and IR down 1 x cat5.




