can anyone reccomend some cat5 cabling or will any do ?

[DaedalusHelios]

Get STP and not UTP. I like the EMI immunity.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Not nearly the same. A piece of electrical tape easily protects the clip when you need to make a cable run, being easily as effective as a boot, trust me, I know from personal experience. A foot, on the other hand, not nearly as effective as brakes at stopping a car, something I also know from personal experience. lol.

Ah wile, your first comments wasnt clear. It sounded like you were saying the plastic clips werent important in the home environment because you could use sticky tape to hold the cable in the router after they'd snapped off. LOL. Clarity of speech! Get it wrong and everyone ends up holding the wrong end of the stick.

 

[craigwhiteside]

The only thing about Cat5 and Cat 6 is the fact that Cat 5 was the cables that came out when Ethernet was first made... Cat 6 is the next gen of the cables. They are most of the time made with 23 gage wire for better cross talk and data transfer...
Like Wile E says, Cat Cables are cat cables... I don't see a reason to go with Cat 6 cables.. My father would say its not a need. And he does the networking for power plants... In the time he's used Both cables, he says that he hasn't seen a difference in them. So, go cat5 and you should be good.

ethernet isnt a connector, or cable type. its a protocol standard

and cross talk = bad

 

[Cold Storm]

ethernet isnt a connector, or cable type. its a protocol standard

and cross talk = bad

I know its not. I'm talking about Cat cables... and Cross talk does = bad! Real bad

 

[Polaris573]

STP is rather unnecessary in homes where EM is going to be low (Unless you're running near your microwave and over dozens of fluorescent lights). Even in the 300 bed hospital I worked at we used UTP for just about everything.

Get stranded cable as it's cheaper and more flexible. Hypothetically solid CAT5e offers better performance but it makes awful patch cable and you'll never be able to measure the performance loss on a home network where you only have a few devices.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

My battery backup is rather large and has caused EMI in the past.

 

[niko084]

Nah, it's all basically the same. Just get whatever CAT5e or CAT6 cable you want.

I wouldn't run cat6 personally its known to break quite easily, cat5e works great and isn't so easy to break.

As far as the cables go, it doesn't matter too much, cable is cable cat5 cat5e etc. are ratings of the cable, I personally buy a spool and make my own cables but when I buy cables pre-made I normally buy Belkin, I just like the ends and they are carried by my distributor.