Lan Cable power!

kazi_saki

kazi_saki

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Somewhere between GW and GW2

Shaved Wookies [HoT]

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Hey,

I just saw some branded LAN cables and it said stuff like super-fast and gigaspeed and other marketing stuff and the wires itself look very sturdy and thick and nice. Is there any difference, regarding connection speed, with this and with the standard LAN cables that come with your router? Would it really make it any faster?

er...are they called LAN cables or ethernet cables, or are they synonymous?

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

Synonymous.

Nice word, makes a change from "you know, liek the same thing, yeah?"

Connecting to the internet via router - doesn't really matter what you use. Bog standard cat5e. The higher rated stuff is for connecting to internal networks where massive files are being transferred, streaming video - that sort of stuff. You can't speed up the internet by using better cable.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

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Standard 5e is fine, as Snoggy said. Cat 6 is good, but there's really no need for it on a home network.

kazi_saki

kazi_saki

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Somewhere between GW and GW2

Shaved Wookies [HoT]

N/

aw. And I was hoping for a quick fix to speed it up, even marginally

Thanx for the very quick replies guys! Now I don't have to shell out money again!

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

You would want the better cables for a 1GigaHz network. Most home networks are just 10/100 Mhz though, so bog standard cables are fine. (I think the standard cables also work with GigaHz networks, but only for shorter runs, and they may be noisier and more subject to errors.)