On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:25 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Casper Gasper wrote: > > My company is about to move offices, and we need to have the new building > > wired up. Is it really crazy to do a new install with cat5e cabling > > instead > > of cat6? > > Any suggestions/advice appreciated. > > > > > > Casper. > > > If the question is: > can gigabit ethernet work on cat5e the answer is: > *no* ... but here I've gigabit ethernet cabled with cat5e, it work > faster than 100Mb ethernet and untill now no problem. > > Anyway why risk for a new install ? How much more does it cost cable > with cat6 instead of cat5e ? >
i thought regular cat5 couldn't work with gigabit but cat5e could. lance(stuNNed) -- [email protected] mailing list
