Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

Using the wrong Ethernet cables can throttle the speed from your ISP.

While Cat5e and Cat6 cables look exactly the same from the outside, it is what’s inside that makes the difference. Selecting the best solution for a network system can seem like a daunting task. It is ...

As colleges and universities roll out Wi-Fi 6 on their campuses, they must decide whether to upgrade their cabling from CAT 5 to CAT 6 or 6A. Joel Keller spent more than a decade in IT before becoming ...

There are many different types of ethernet cables, each fulfilling a specific purpose. If you were browsing the internet in the 90s, you likely used a Category 3 cable to facilitate your connection.

After five years of development, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) recently published its standard for Cat. 6 cabling systems, TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1, addressing the need for a cabling ...

Though we’ve never used their cables, [Blue Jeans Cable] out of Seattle, WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they ...

I'm looking to cable up a condo with Cat 6 without drilling into the walls and going fishing for them. I wish to just run them along the edges of the carpet and laminate, and tucking them away ...

I bought a 4k home video system. I bought bulk cat6 cable, ran it all, mounted the camera's, now I need to install the cable ends. I tried to do it a couple of time's, without success. The cable I ...

The mini CAT6 copper trunk bundle has an outer diameter of 0.62 inches, down from its original size of 1.2 inches. The copper trunk breakout legs have a diameter of 0.148 inches, reduced from 0.29 ...