looking for network cable

[Cr0nJ0b]

I'm moving my server and some other core network gear out to the garage and I running some additional wires in house. I want to make sure that I'm covered for today and well into the future. I'm thinking I'd like to use CAT 6e. I'll need about 500' max with the longest run at like 100'. Any thoughts on cable type and places to purchase cheap would be appreciated.

thanks

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10232

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Go crazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_7_cable

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

thanks but at a buck a foot for cat 7, I think I'll just sit with Cat6 UTP. The runs aren't that long and really the only run I care about (to my main PC) is like 20'

 

[RadiclDreamer]

thanks but at a buck a foot for cat 7, I think I'll just sit with Cat6 UTP. The runs aren't that long and really the only run I care about (to my main PC) is like 20'

You said "well into the future" and I at least qualified its "overkill" with a smiley

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

no, no, you got it right. I got your point with the smiley. I just wasn't prepared for the price tag.

 

[bobdole369]

CAT7 is not the future. They used this monstrosity on a couple yachts I was working on, specifically becasue the lead EE considered the shielding important. Halfway through it was decided that the CAT7 would never certify at anything but 100mbit and be very intermittent. (Because of the shielding the EE considered no issue running in the same chase as KW SSB circuits, multiple KW power cables, phone circuits and a whole lot of other crap). They pulled it all out at great expense and used CAT6a and a lot of it in its own new set of runs. (In all likelihood the issue was improper installation, including kinking, bends, and ground problems systemwide)

CAT7 is likely not going to see much widespread use. 7a is promising though. THough I suspect that fiber is going to play a bigger role in horizontal and premises cable than it does right now.

If I were wiring a house right now it'd be CAT6a.