Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-07-04 Thread Prashant P Kothari
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Dibyo wrote: > On 7 Jun 2017 03:19, "Prashant P Kothari" wrote: > > Folks > > We're moving in to a new house in Virginia this summer > > Q) The builder's default cable is CAT5... but I'm wondering if it makes > sense to

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-12 Thread Bharath Chari
On 2017-06-06 22:18, Prashant P Kothari wrote: Folks We're moving in to a new house in Virginia this summer Q) The builder's default cable is CAT5... but I'm wondering if it makes sense to upgrade to CAT5e or even CAT6? Does anyone have first-hand experience with this Thanks Prashant I'd

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-07 Thread Charles Haynes
I'm curious, what gigE devices do you have connected to your home network? I use 5ghz WiFi for everything. Including streaming large media files. But I am not streaming 4k video. Only 1080p. -- Charles On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 at 17:05 gabin kattukaran wrote: > On 7 June 2017

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-07 Thread gabin kattukaran
On 7 June 2017 at 12:09, Biju Chacko wrote: > However, given that installing cable is a gigantic pain, if > there isn't a big price difference go with Cat6. No doubt 10G home > networking kit will be standard in a few years +1 to that. I recently got my new apartment

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-07 Thread Biju Chacko
Don't get Cat5, even home routers support gigabit now. With whatever active components you have now, you probably won't see much difference between Cat5e and Cat6. However, given that installing cable is a gigantic pain, if there isn't a big price difference go with Cat6. No doubt 10G home

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Note that wireless tends to flake out while streaming large media files within the internal network - as in streaming a movie from a NAS to a AV receiver. -- -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((via phone))

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-06 Thread Narayanan Hariharan
I went through a similar experience last year and was advised to use CAT6 cables by a guy who runs the networks in a multinational company. They are just backup for me though, my entire residence is covered with the help of two really powerful wireless routers, one working as a range extender to

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-06 Thread Dibyo
On 7 Jun 2017 03:19, "Prashant P Kothari" wrote: Folks We're moving in to a new house in Virginia this summer Q) The builder's default cable is CAT5... but I'm wondering if it makes sense to upgrade to CAT5e or even CAT6? Does anyone have first-hand experience with this

[silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

2017-06-06 Thread Prashant P Kothari
Folks We're moving in to a new house in Virginia this summer Q) The builder's default cable is CAT5... but I'm wondering if it makes sense to upgrade to CAT5e or even CAT6? Does anyone have first-hand experience with this Thanks Prashant