peterb (12-02-2018)
Cat 6 is quite a complex construction which doesn’t lend itself to flat construction. It may be OK for your application, but you may find for more demanding data applications ther performance will drop off significantly.
There is ‘flat cat5’ which again isn’t cat5 but the construction of proper cat5 is less complex and again over short lengths you might be OK.
Depending on where you got it from, you may find that there is no difference between ‘flat cat5’ and ‘flat cat6’
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RaTTuS (13-02-2018)
You can more often than not tuck cat5 under skirtings.
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off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Depends how you look at it. Those who consider running cables as an option probably understand the hardware well enough to know what they should expect from the technology.
In this case, I guess you're right that an XBOX or PS4 probably wont need more than 100Mbps.
Or as I have learned OMx/OSx fibre
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Yup, go with cables. You can get a cheap switch for 10-20quid that has a full speed backplane (2Gbps/port, so a 6 port switch would have a 12Gbps backplane)
Connect that to 1 port on your router and plug everything else into the switch. If your low on ports and need to utilise the ones on the router, plug the lowest bandwidth requiring devices into the router.
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Being a sparky, i will probably run all cables behind the wall and stick ports in each room. i might just run a cable from the living room where the router lives and stick a port panel in the attic and drop a cable cable into each room.
I agree with the cat 5e cable being the choice as cat 6 is a pig to run and bend.
I also have some external cat 5e cable for a run to my shed. I need a port for my Serato PC where my turntables are.
Thanks for the pointers.
So quick update.
With a day off for the carpet fitters, I dug out my Asus RT 56N with the custom firmware on it and plug this into my Vodafone broadband router and used the ASUs for the WiFi and the Vodafone for the broadband. Now have a few spare lan ports as well as back to my good old stable WiFi connection.
Thanks for the pointers everyone
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