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      01-03-2016, 12:07 PM   #23
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I recently ran Cat6 cables all throughout my house that's undergoing a renovation. The price difference between 500 feet of Cat 5e and Cat 6 was about $25, so I figured I might as well try to future proof what's behind the walls as much as possible. All the devices I'm using are Cat 5e still.
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I recently ran Cat6 cables all throughout my house that's undergoing a renovation. The price difference between 500 feet of Cat 5e and Cat 6 was about $25, so I figured I might as well try to future proof what's behind the walls as much as possible. All the devices I'm using are Cat 5e still.
What - no fiber?
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What - no fiber?
Fiber isn't a panacea either. Depending on how future proofed you want to be. So far the only fiber I've seen which has some lasting power is single mode fiber at a significant cost with both materials and optics compatible with it.

Although, OM3/4 multimode fiber seems to have some lasting power with various optics being created to allow greater flexibility in its use. Such as Cisco with their BiDi optics.
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I love wires when static. Constantly changing setups suck for maintaining connectivity.
This. I keep seeing people insisting on wired solutions where it's not optimal for the OP. For me, I used to own a house that I wired. I was there for a long time and I owned the property. I felt it worthwhile to hardwire due to ease of execution, low cost (to me), lack of viable alternative (powerline was tried and found to be worthless), and static locale of all equipment involved. That's not even close to the case for me anymore, so my AC and secondary N router (two completely separate wireless networks) is where it's at.
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I was thinking of wiring my house for ethernet, then I realized all my shit worked just fine wireless. Now I need a beer for a job well done!
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Cat5e has always worked for all of my drops. I run a 24 port PoE switch and about 15 IP cameras over the same network everything else is on in my house and 5e is more than enough to handle all of that.
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Cat5e has always worked for all of my drops. I run a 24 port PoE switch and about 15 IP cameras over the same network everything else is on in my house and 5e is more than enough to handle all of that.
The type of cable you use on a LAN has no bearing on the overall capacity of your network. The type of cable is only relevant between two points. In this case between the device and the switch. If you're talking about overall capacity and the ability to support the network demands of the devices on your network, that falls onto your switch.
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No reason to upgrade. I run old Cat5E and even pass POE over it without issue or any errors.
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