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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 48701

This video conducts a speed test on various types of ethernet cables (Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a, Cat7, and Cat8) at a length of 100 feet. The host tests the cables by running speed tests using a 10 GB switch and demonstrates the actual performance of each cable type, revealing surprising results where each cable type is able

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Csimbi · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:16 pm Post subject:

Didn't you post this a few weeks back?

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lorcro2000 · Elite Member Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 411

For home use, 10 gig switches with optical fibers can be had for $100 or something now. Sure, it's cheap Chinese stuff. It works.

So for longer runs, there's literally almost no reason to use copper anymore. Even my small house has fiber cables between the switches, it's so much easier to deal with too as it's thinner and lighter and I get clean 10 gig for 300 *meters*, not feet. Not that I'm anywhere near those distances.

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:22 am Post subject:

Good for you. It's way too expensive around here.