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Cable Wars: Cat 6 vs Cat 7 vs. Cat 5e?
stone22 asks: "My company has decided to install a gigabit link. This will be initially used only for testing purposes, and on the longterm as a backbone for our corperate network. We allready decided to use copper, but what standard ? I've heard about problems using cat 7 cables (cross talk, bulky cables, non-standard connectors) so I could really use some hints from all you cabling experts out there."
Yeah, you point out the manuals and information and stuff like that. I'm sure that if he has the ability to post on /. that he has the ability to read.
What if he's looking for user experiences in the real world (you have been in the real world right? You don't just stay in your parents' basement compliling kernels over and over again?).
Manuals will tell you the how to, but not the how good.
I guess he got his answer - ask the slashdot crowd and all the condescending assholes come out of the woodwork to parade their 133t status.
And to stay on topic, I have found that cat5 is perfectly acceptable for gigabit ethernet, but I've only used it point to point, not as a backbone, and then only using a G4 tower and a Powerbook - obviously due to the aestheticly pleasing nature of these computers they can't be 133t, and hence my opinion doesn't count.
Have a nice day.
Well, whoop-dee-doo! Congratulations, you Read an FM. I'll bet the submitter did, too. Do you really think the posters let such questions through in order to substitute some loser's RTFM? We all know how to hunt down specs, standards, and manuals. If that was all there was to it, they could replace /. with a redirect to google. Such questions are not in to provide you with the opportunity to be a snotty little pissant, but for the discussion they stimulate. Here, there's access to the experience, wisdom, and judgement of hundreds (thousands?) of geeks, even if, so often, some snotty little AC demonstrates such limited thinking. Does anybody really think that all the answers are in the standards and manuals? On this topic, for instance, maybe somebody will be able to make the case that there is no reason for catVI or catVII, V works just fine, per the spec. Somebody else may be able to show real benefit, maybe just in certain circumstances, to useing more expensive cable. It is to be his backbone - maybe he should be looking at fibre instead. Whatever.
While I agree that if the submitter didn't even look at such docs as you provided in your crapflood, he IS an idiot, that has no bearing on our responses to the question, and responses to the responses. So, go get a cup of coffee, read something good, and calm down. Review the thread in a couple of days. There'll probably be something in it you didn't already know. Really. It's possible.