Do you really have a 2 Gigabit internet connection? Or do you mean 2 Megabit?

Cat 6 is really for Gigabit networks and unless the majority of your PCs have Gigabit capability and you're shuffling huge amounts of data around it's not worth it.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on March 15th 2010 at 10:48:14

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(206 days to go, first minor disaster Missus has gone off tea!) FAO tech heads, RE cabling (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:15:26
- Do you really have a 2 Gigabit internet connection? Or do you mean 2 Megabit? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 15, 10:48:14
  - see see? Horrendously out of the loop. I'm almost a caveman again. (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:56:03
    - Cat 5 will handle your internet connection no problem (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 15, 11:16:53
- No, not at all. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Mar 15, 10:21:37
  - Really? Or is this a Jafski type answer? I can't keep up. I would have/of thought (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:26:46
    - No, the bottle neck will not be your category 5 internal cable network. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Mar 15, 10:37:55
      - cool, thanks, simple answer and saved me wasting 30 squids! (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:56:42
    - get a wireless cable (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 15, 10:29:17
- Yes. (General Chat) - jafski, Mar 15, 10:19:15
  - ^^^^^^^^ Still makes me chuckle. Simple things simple minds, (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:27:10
- Trying to work out what "tea" is a euphemism for (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 15, 10:17:32
  - Bit quiet isn't it? I blame lambert, winning too many games. (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Mar 15, 10:28:26
  - *scratches arse* (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 15, 10:18:24

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