I had ask about the speed of Cat5e vs Cat6 and Lee had done extensive testing, which I am sure was a lot more accurate than what I can possibly do. Here is my setup and results of moving a 530 meg file from an iMac to a Macbook Pro.
I have the house wired with 5e, going through one of those gee whiz boxes that allow you to have phone, cat and coax all in one box, then distributed through the home. I have but one feed coming off the Airport Extremes going into a Linksy switch 10/100. I had purchased a 10/100/1000 long ago but had never had the need to use, so to experiment I hooked it up in place of the 10/100. I wanted to time the moving of the 550 meg file from one machine to the other. Moving it three times the best I could get (using the iPhone timer) was 53.3 seconds. Of course I was too dumb to think of the OTHER switches that I was moving this through. When you have wall outlets there is ONE plug so if you have several items that need to be attached at various locations close to that plug you need another SWITCH. ALL of these are 10/100 so in my cobweb mind I was thinking I was getting the 1 gig speed. DUH, maybe I was to the next switch but then it was choked down. The crazy Linksys 10/100/1000 I had purchased a year ago must have been made for sound effects in a Hollywood movie, sounded like a microwave. That won't work. I ordered Cisco's Small Business switch, 16 ports, and it has QoS (whatever that means and is dead silent), and I picked up two Cat6 cables. It arrived today. I hooked the two machines together with none of the other switches between. Holly COW, the 550 meg file can now be sent between the two machines in 10.8 seconds!!!!! So, now I have to decide if the problem are the other switches, if so I will need to purchase quite a few to realize this kind of gain assuming the 5e cable will handle the job as Lee found. Not that many of you will find this interesting but for my needs it is like Super Hero in one box and two cables!! John
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