James Knott wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> John E. Perry wrote: >>> Russell Jones wrote: >>>> ... >>>> Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your >>>> pennies on something else. >>>> >>> Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little >>> more costly than cat-5 when I bought it, and it runs 100Mbps just fine >>> -- even over the 40 ft to my son's room. >>> John Perry >> If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are >> running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a >> lot of cables or have anything which is sensitive to radio emissions >> close by, Cat 6 starts making sense. > ???? > > There are two ways to reduce interference to & from a cable. Those are > shielding and twisted pairs. UTP cable, including CAT 6 relies on > twisted pairs to reduce interference. Unless the twist rate for CAT 6 > is significantly more than CAT 5, there will be little difference > between the two for interference purposes.
In fact, twisting is superior to shielding in practical installations, unless there's a great deal of near-field interference, when shielding can be really effective. But the purpose of the high-quality cables is to preserve waveform fidelity, which is why the more carefully made cables give better bandwidth. I didn't know cat-6 cables were available yet. I'll have to give it a look. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
