wiring my house for a network

[MikeyLSU]

I checked monoprice and for the amount I am looking for(100-200 feet) the price difference is only about $5. Is it worth the price to go ahead and get the cat6.

My understanding is there would be no performance upgrade as of now, but hopefully someday it would be used. What kind of speeds are needed for it to be utilized? Right now I have a 6mb conncection and usually max download speed is about 500KB/second, may peak a little higher.

 

[JackMDS]

You putting some thing into the walls.

One of thess days CAT6 would be needed. So you are going to save few $$ now and reewire later?

:sun:

 

[tfinch2]

Cat6, or you'll be kicking yourself later.

 

[masteraleph]

For $5, put the Cat6 in.

 

[spherrod]

Go for Cat6 - one day you'll be glad you did

 

[MikeyLSU]

thanks, my only thought was that it would take more than 5-10 years for there to be any use out of it, but I guess I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

Another question...will I get any performance upgrade over my home network with these wires? Or would I need a Gb network card to get any better performance out of it?

Do you need certain routers to support the high speed, or do they work just fine as is?

Reason I ask is whether or not I should replace my current cat5e that runs from the router to my computer. If there is no upgrade in performance right now, I can wait till later to do that part.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
thanks, my only thought was that it would take more than 5-10 years for there to be any use out of it, but I guess I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

Another question...will I get any performance upgrade over my home network with these wires? Or would I need a Gb network card to get any better performance out of it?

Do you need certain routers to support the high speed, or do they work just fine as is?

Reason I ask is whether or not I should replace my current cat5e that runs from the router to my computer. If there is no upgrade in performance right now, I can wait till later to do that part.

If you use gigabit, your probably won't see a speed increase because the bottleneck will be your drivespeed.

 

[Jeff7181]

With the cost difference being so insignificant, go with CAT6. A Gigabit LAN is 125 MBytes/sec. That might be way more than is needed or even usable today in your home, and may even be more of a luxury than a need 5 years from now, but why bother with CAT5e when there isn't much difference in the price compared to CAT6. In 5 years if you decide you want to be able to stream 1080p content to a couple PC's across your network while you download gigabytes of porn over your fiber optic internet connection while playing Unreal Tournament 2010 that $5 is going to seem very well spent when you don't have to rerun all those wires through your walls.