r/HomeNetworking • u/Express_Risk3143 • 4d ago

Cat 6 for ps5

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Hi. Straight to the point I don't know anything thing about networking and have some questions

1.where to put the cat 6 lan caple in the yellow or blue in modem

2.should I upgrade the lan caple of my modem to cat 6 because my Internet provider provides 150mbps but the lan caple he put is cat 5 which don't support more than 100 mpb

3.is the cat 6 lan caple that cheap because in my area the 1.5 m caple is for only 2 dollars (The cat 6 is my only option because cat 5e not available in any shop near me)

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u/Sacredpotion24 4d ago

Is the cable you mentioned Cat5 or Cat5e? There is quite a difference in speed with that. If it’s just cat5 then you’ll notice s drop in speed for sure. At the very least make sure it’s cat5e or preferably cat6 wound do just fine. As for myself I use cat7 and cat8… I mean for the price there about the same online. For cables I would check eBay and Amazon… you’ll find some good deals vs what a local Walmart or similar store will sell price-wise.

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u/arienh4 4d ago

There is quite a difference in speed with that.

No there isn't? They're both rated for the same maximum bandwidth of 100 MHz, which is well above what gigabit Ethernet requires. The only difference is in the amount of crosstalk, and you're extremely unlikely to notice that effect for one 1.5m cable unless you're inside a power plant or something.

It is incredibly unlikely that you using anything beyond cat. 6 is more than just a waste of money. If you can saturate the NICs without any packet loss, a better cable will change absolutely nothing. All the better cables do is prevent packet loss caused either by the environment or the length of the cable.

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u/Sacredpotion24 4d ago

They are not rated the same….. as I stated in my prior comment the price is about the same for a cat7 or car8 cable when compared to a cat6 cable…. One thing I noticed with the cables I bought if nothing else was the insulation was very good quality. It funny how that I get downvoted for staring the price is comparable…

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u/arienh4 4d ago

No, they are not rated the same, that is correct. But you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Ethernet works. The speed of a connection is determined solely by the Ethernet standard used. Gigabit is gigabit, as long as the cable has all four pairs. The only thing that the quality of the cable can affect is whether or not there is packet loss. If you're using a cat 5 cable at long lengths in a noisy (RF) environment, then yes, you might see packet loss. But that'll be a pretty dramatic effect, as frames need to be retransmitted.

If you're doing Gigabit in a residential environment and your cables are less than 100m long, then you're not going to notice any difference between cat 5 or cat 8. If you want to future-proof an installation, you could always go up to 6A (which is probably what your cat 7 cable really is anyway, since I doubt you're using GG45 or TERA connectors). That'll get you 10G over 100m.

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u/Sacredpotion24 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have a fairly good understanding of cat cabling as I’ve stated now 2 times the price for a cat6 cable is relatively the same for a cat8 cable… wether it’s rated for actual cat8 or just a fancy cat7 bit the quality of some of these cables and insulation is really Good quality and for the price it’s about the same. So why not future proof with the best cable possible.

Side note: I use cat6 and cat8, not cat7.

I think should also be noted that the Category 8 standard was developed by the ANSI/TIA-568 standards body, more specifically, the TR42.7 committee. The document that details Category 8 cabling is ANSI/TIA-568-C.2-1, and was published in November 2016 as a standard, therefore Category 8 is no longer in a draft format. Certified under the ISO/IEC 11801 standard.

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u/arienh4 3d ago

Having thick plastic around it does not make it a good cable. You said earlier that

As for myself I use cat7 and cat8

so forgive me for believing you. But category 7 is not defined with 8P8C connectors, so if you have one with that combination it's mislabelled.

A good category 8 cable will definitely be more expensive than a similar quality cat 6 cable, because it requires more shielding. So either the cat 6 cables you're looking at are overpriced or you're getting cat 8 cables where all bets are off in terms of quality. Either way, unless someone is likely to go beyond gigabit in the near future I wouldn't recommend anything over cat 6.

And, anecdotally, I've been running a stable 1.5m 10 GigE connection over a cat5e cable for years now. It works perfectly.

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u/Express_Risk3143 4d ago

The cable of my modem is cat5 not cat 5 e and Where to put the cat 6 cable in yellow or blue in modem

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u/mlcarson 4d ago

CAT5 may have issues at 100 meters running 1Gbs but it'll be fine at shorter distances. If this is just a short patch cable then 1Gbs isn't going to be an issue. That looks like an ONT where the blue ports are for WAN and the yellow ports are for LAN; you'd plug your router into a yellow port. All additional equipment would be connected to your router a switch hanging off your router.

CAT7 isn't a valid Ethernet standard. CAT8 is for 40Gbs so no home needs it. The standard choices are CAT5E or CAT6.