While you do enjoy the convenience of pre-built cables of various lengths and colors, if you are in need of multiple cables, the price of making them yourself quickly shows a return on your investment ...

There is also a plan to increase the speeds of Cat5e to 5 Gbps over the existing cables, known as the IEEE P802.3bz standard, which also works on Cat6 cabling. If you've got to have it, here's the ...

I use Commscope CAT5e, it is pretty good stuff. Normally network cable is sold in either 500 or 1000 foot spools. I believe the Commscope stuff goes for about $40-50 per 1000' spool.<BR><BR>I don ...

The absolute minimum Ethernet cable worth considering today is a Cat5e. These cables offer Gigabit Ethernet speeds at up to 100m, and feature much better shielding against noise and crosstalk than ...

Start with the speed of your home internet connection.If you have gigabit internet (1Gbps), an old Ethernet cord like a Cat 5 cable, will hold you back. If you have a slower connection — perhaps ...

PATA cables use 80 conductor wire, even though they only have 40 pin connectors. The extra 40 lines are all tied to ground. The cable was constructed from 10 pieces of Cat5e with one line from ...

I made two cables, each five feet long, using Belden 1700A (Cat 5e bonded pair cable); one used the pass-through plugs and the other used our standard plug. The pass-through cable passed 5e testing, ...