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Cat 5 or cat 6?
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Got a new PC at work, and there were a couple of cables around. One was cat 5 enhanced (?), the other was cat 6. Would it make a difference which one was used? I would use the cat 6 but it's too short, and was wondering what the difference is. Any networking geeks?
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Supposedly cat6 will succeed cat5 but in my time spent as a data cabler of the data we ran 80% was cat5, 10% was cat6 and 10% was fibre. Even when running new cable networks in universities most of it was cat5.