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Nik - CAT6 isn't a ratified standard in the same way as CAT5
is.
CAT6 is, for the moment, simply a marketing term used by some
manufacturers to make you think their products are better.
There is a draft CAT6 standard currently in the ratification process,
but
it's not clear how many products marked "CAT6" to date will actually comply
with
it.
If you've gone with a single manufacturer's system, then you'll
probably be OK at 1Gb PROVIDED you've installed as per their
instructions...
which ARE important at anything over 100Mb/sec.
M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Kasic
[mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Fri 31/05/2002 12:41
To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Gigabit
Ethernet
I
have installed Cat6 in my flat. I had to install Cat6 patch panel and Cat6
sockets.
They
claim that they have to be all from same manufacturer to comply. I don't
know
why. It didn't cost an arm and a leg, and I am a bit future-proofed, I
hope.
I
didn't pay to much attention to bend radiuses etc. because I wasn't aware
at
that time that there are any constraints.
I
have 100Mbps network running fine. Maybe I'll experience some problems when
I
switch to Gigabit, I don't know. That's not in my immediat
plans.
Nik
Stuart,
I recently got a
Dell 2U server which has Gigabit. I got a Netgear FS726
switch
with
one Gigabit port. I've wired the whole house in Cat5e
for
100Mb/s. The Gigabit port helps avoid the server/switch
bottleneck as it
can run at 1000Mb/s. I'd install Cat5e.
You'd really struggle to install
Cat6 in a house, and also struggle to
get the right hardware at the moment.
Even getting the Gigabit link
between the server/patch panel/patch
lead/switch to work OK can be a
problem, and that might only be a metre
or
so.
Regards
Simon
----- Original Message
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From: Stuart Booth <stuart@xxxxxxx>
To:
<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 31 May 2002 10:52
Subject:
[ukha_d] Gigabit Ethernet
> I was just reading an artcle in
ITWeek about Dell offering
> P4/Celeron PCs with onboard Gigibit
Ethernet (Optiplex GX260's).
>
> I had thought prices of
Gigibit
Ethernet were exhorbitant. This
> newsbit made me wonder if I should
plan for GbEthernet when I
> start wiring my house up with CAT5 cable
(or whatever I would
> require) later in the year.
>
>
Are
there any special cables (CAT6? CAT5e?) required for
>
GbEthernet?
>
> Or if CAT5e cable gets slapped in the walls, is
it just a switch
> upgrade + network card upgrade that is
required?
>
> Fast Ethernet is more than adequate for my uses
at
the moment,
> but that doesn't mean to say I won't find further uses
for it some
> years down the road.
>
>
Stuart
>
>
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