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After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Cat8 is pointless with gigabit equipment as far as speed goes. Cat6 will do 10gig, you just had bad cables.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yep. I'm running 1/1Gbps wan connection over cat5e just fine. Even on very noisy environment at work with a longish run (70+ meters) we ran pretty damn stable 1/1Gbps over good quality cat7.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wonder if the cables replaced by OP were user-made, not commercial cables, that were our together incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They had been collected from various ISP provided modems and routers I've purchased over the years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

At least in here some of the older modems, specially from ADSL-era, only had two pairs in them, so they were only good up to 100Base-T, which is roughly 7MB/s. So maybe check if that's the case and throw those into recycling bin.

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