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Originally Posted by acropolite
Nothing like a fast pipe. In my experience you probably didn't need to upgrade the cable, Gigabit ethernet works just fine on the majority of cat 5 installations.
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Using the previous cable it wasn't running at gigabit, would only work at 100 megabit. I think now that might have been due to plug wiring not the cable its self (as I understand it some older cat 5 cables are not wired to suit gigabit). So I think there's a good chance you're right, if I'd known to just re-wire the plugs on the cable. Also I've found several of my shorter off-the-shelf cables (1m, 2m, etc) are not gigabit compatible presumably due to the same wiring issue. So again, perhaps I didn't need to replace the cable and just needed to also replace those shorter ones
One other factor: the previous cable did have 7 odd years of direct exposure to sun in some parts (my laziness) and had pretty poor performance, perhaps as a result. So it's good to have a nice new heavier duty Cat 6 cable installed anyhow
(better installation this time too
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Roger.