Cat 6e jacks and RJ45s

Miley

Could anyone tell me if normal Cat 5e jacks and RJ45s be used on Cat 6e cable or are there specific ones fo Cat 6

ircoha

Miley wrote:

Could anyone tell me if normal Cat 5e jacks and RJ45s be used on Cat 6e cable or are there specific ones fo Cat 6

interesting question: was at the selfbuilds gig yday and Cat 7e was all the rage, with specific hardware

Captain Chaos

Miley wrote:

Could anyone tell me if normal Cat 5e jacks and RJ45s be used on Cat 6e cable or are there specific ones fo Cat 6

Yes they can be used. Though you may not get as high a transfare rate as with an all CAT6 installation.

Miley

Cheers for that CC.

Ircoha, i tried getting Cat 7e but found it impossible to get in bulk. was told by most suppliers that it is not being used yet by any companies in ireland

Captain Chaos

In the company I work for we have only been asked to install CAT 7 once. Most of the time we install CAT 5e, CAT 6 and fiber for our customers.

As ircoha already said, CAT 7 is for very specific hardware.

Even for T2 in the airport we are installing CAT6 and fiber.
If you need more than what CAT6 can offer, fiber is the best way to go.

E. Fudd

Captain Chaos wrote:

If you need more than what CAT6 can offer, fiber is the best way to go.

Excellent point. And doesn't need to be segregated from power circuits.

Pocky

Captain Chaos wrote: »

If you need more than what CAT6 can offer, fiber is the best way to go.

Just look at the cost of fiber. Not just cabling but installation and equipment. How do you connect speakers, TVs, etc to fibre? Optical signal versus electronic signal. You need an active converter and that adds to the costs. Don't think that speakers, TVs, DVD-Rs etc. will come soon with fibre connectors.

If you need flexibility, reliability, high capacity and future proof look at www.HomeNetSupport.eu

And yes, they will sell you 100 meter of cable if that is all you need

BigEejit

Pocky wrote: »

Just look at the cost of fiber. Not just cabling but installation and equipment. How do you connect speakers, TVs, etc to fibre? Optical signal versus electronic signal. You need an active converter and that adds to the costs. Don't think that speakers, TVs, DVD-Rs etc. will come soon with fibre connectors.

If you need flexibility, reliability, high capacity and future proof look at www.HomeNetSupport.eu

And yes, they will sell you 100 meter of cable if that is all you need

WTF? Using cat6 for wiring speakers and tv's? You use fibre when you need up to 4gb on runs up to 500meters.
Buying all the kit to splice cables and put connectors is no doubt expensive, and completely necessary for a big structured cabling job in a data centre for example. For a small scale setup you could just buy ready made cables

Pocky

You are not trying to say that that fibre is ok for domestic/smaller jobs. After all ircoha earlier mentioned "selfbuilds gig" with Cat7e and "selfbuild gig" is sure not for commercial installation.

So on residential one should consider flexibility of usage and service and that includes speakers, TVs, etc.

If you are talking about commercial, bandwidth requirements and data than you HAVE TO use fibre.

But comparing both - commercial and domestic - is like comparing apples and bananas, after all both are fruits

antoinolachtnai

It's not Category 6 (or 7 or whatever) unless it uses category 6 components throughout and passes the standard tests for the category. It's the whole system that qualifies for the category, not the cabling alone. It is true in principle that you can upgrade the connectors later, and you might then be able to pass the test for the higher category but this might turn out to be tricky in practice. You really should decide what category you're aiming at at the outset.

Capt'n Midnight

Cat5 will carry Gigabit. G5e allows more links, but not really useful in a home environment. Cat6 is over kill unless you have serious bandwidth need, realtime home audio visual will never have that.

Do you have cat 6 network cards and switches ?
Today you can bond gigabit NIC's together to increase bandwidth on Cat5 , make an interesting PXE project for a silent PC

10-10-20

Ah, but can you bond NIC's at a PXE level? I think not.
AFIK, bonding is only supported within the OS when the driver loads.

But, it's one for the slient PC'ers.

FusionNet

Miley wrote: »

Could anyone tell me if normal Cat 5e jacks and RJ45s be used on Cat 6e cable or are there specific ones fo Cat 6

You can not mix cat5e and cat6 jacks and cable, if you do it will only perform to the lower grade, ie a cat6 jack with cat 5 cable, the cable will not perform to 250Mhz

Better off sticking to each catagory.

Eoghan
Fusion Networks
Kerry