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Originally posted by DarkMaster
oh, well pardon my ignorance from my earlier post. I think i can understand wut your saying. i have just one more question though. at radio shack there was 2 different ethernet cables, they were both the same in length but one was more money and it said high speed on it, the other didnt say high speed, wuts the deal with that? thanks.
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There's Cat5, Cat5e, and Cat 6. Actually, I know there's probably one higher for that, but not avaliable at the consumer level. Anyway, they are backwards compatible, so you can use any.
Cat 5 supports up to 100MBps transfer. Cat 5 e supports up to 300MBps. Cat 6 supports up to 1000MBps. Now your router will likely only support 10/100, so using a 5e or 6 wouldn't help in any way. The only way you'll benefit from a higher cable is it you use a gigabit hub, or router, and all gigabit cables, plug have gigabit NIC cards.
You can get by with Cat 5.
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