Cat5e Vs Cat6?

SplanK

well at the moment... I have a cable for my media centre... however in the future with network ready TVs hitting the market, games consoles, media centers.....

if you are decorating and hiding the cables in the walls, under floors - then its best to run multiple cables now than having to do it again later... it wont cost that much more to run multiple cables.... i wish i did - but now im having to use an additional network switch to add extra network points.

tony58_3

well thanks for that tip, i wasnt aware of network ready tvs, would u say 2 would be enough in the living room? one for the ps3 one for the tv?

SplanK

It is up to you - i would say 2 would be the minimum I would run myself now if i am to run the cable behind walls and then decorate

Eric_Pisch

I have 15 year old cat5 (not even E), 500 odd machines and 30 odd switches, all upgraded to gig, all working fine

if your installing now i would however go CAT6 as there may be developments in the future that require it

aliasojo

tony58 wrote: »

well thanks for that tip, i wasnt aware of network ready tvs, would u say 2 would be enough in the living room? one for the ps3 one for the tv?

I've just run 4 cables in the livingroom (2 double sockets). One double socket where the tv is and one at the other side of the room just in case I ever want to move things about or I need/want a connection elsewhere for whatever reason. I don't like visible trailing wires everywhere so figured I'd be as well running multiple lengths at once, it's not any harder.

One_Day_Rodney

If you really want top speed, immune from interference & radio hacking, a network capable of running around your house several hundred (if not thousand) times and with the highest degree of future proofing then fit a fibre optic network :cool:

Don't expect it to be cheap though :eek:



I run a 1 Gigabyte backbone Cat5e network round my bungalow and it performs superbly.
Last week I bought a further 305m reel of Cat5e ( gonna run the network down to my garage and to the workshop at the end of my garden) and it cost only £44. Connectors and tools for the job (from Maplin) are dirt cheap too.

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ukbill69

Just Cat5, its cheap and works on 1gb speeds no problem. Suggest get a 305m box from http://www.blackbox.co.uk/products/display.asp?id=0&doc=eyn851a-pb-1000&tx=2&sx=1 they do one for like £30.

bradleigh1977

my kind of thread, as this is what i do for a living and have done for years. i work for one of the biggest structured cabling companys in the country.

Now for what you are going to do, you do not need cat 6 or even cat 7.

unless you had 20000 ps3s all linked together and all playing on the internet at once, would you notice a difference in network speed. You could use just cat5 not even enhanced and it will br 1000000% adequate for your needs. Don't be put off by people recommending cat 6 or cat 7 etc.. thats not what you need. PM and i will sort you out some advice of what manufacturer etc, if your near me ill give you the cable for free.!

bradleigh1977

as for network tvs, in the trade its called

I P T V

I have just finished the west stand at stamford bridge, and before christmas i finished cobham training ground. All IPTV is is running your tv like a pc/screen.

The idea is to watch tv over the internet, so no need for sky etc...But with slow broadband speeds everywhere, iptv will only be for a speck of the population. Also IPTV an be controlled from a single place---as all the tvs in cobham can and will be controlled from the network at stamford bridge.

bradleigh1977

One_Day_Rodney wrote: »

If you really want top speed, immune from interference & radio hacking, a network capable of running around your house several hundred (if not thousand) times and with the highest degree of future proofing then fit a fibre optic network :cool:

Don't expect it to be cheap though :eek:



I run a 1 Gigabyte backbone Cat5e network round my bungalow and it performs superbly.
Last week I bought a further 305m reel of Cat5e ( gonna run the network down to my garage and to the workshop at the end of my garden) and it cost only £44. Connectors and tools for the job (from Maplin) are dirt cheap too.

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