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Category 6 UTP Standard is (finally) Here

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-after-I-wired-my-basement dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is only important for the networkphiles out there, but the Category 6 UTP specification is finally here. The standard is the TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1. The significance of this is that now you can transmit at 250Mhz frequencies (vs 100Mhz of Cat 5/5e). So 1Gbps is easily achievable. Of course ther's still Category 7 (600Mhz) in development, but I guess we should eventually move to fiber." Who hasn't crimped cat-5 before?

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  1. fp? by ryepup · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a jimmmy troll, jimmy!

    1. Re:fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Asshole, you beat me to it!

    2. Re:fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Asshole! You beat me to telling him he beat me!

  2. second post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah

  3. msg for Taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cram your "Overrated" editor moderation up your ass.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion