<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>My current router at work is rated at 56mb. I just purchased a new router rated up to 300mbps. Great except the Internet comes in at 25mbps.<br><br>I have purchased a new wireless printer as well.<br>
</div>So I bought the new router so that any printing jobs will be done faster. Am I in my right mind on this? <br><br>To me it is the last 50 feet that are important. Will there soon be a wireless Internet service that will give us the speed that our routers are capable of?<br>
<br></div>Cheers<br><br></div>John<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 2:30 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OK, but my real basic question is, to what end?<br>
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Gigabit has even now not permeated enough of the world. (Why any laptop still comes with 10/100 is beyond me). Even my USB 3.0 / gigabit adapter can't saturate the gigabit.<br>
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Future proof for what (copper wise)?<br>
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If the world is going tablets and phones - that's wifi, not copper. Even if you have copper and an AP at each room for wi-fi devices to connect to, no amount of devices on that wi-fi will ever saturate the gigabit - wi-fi will never be that fast. (?)<br>
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Home wise, I'm not prepared to even put out for multi-run bonding - the equipment required at each end is extraordinarily expensive (for home). I don't imagine it's any different for 10Gps CAT6 ethernet, let alone fibre. And if it's fibre we get to, the copper run, 5e or 6, isn't going to be useful.<br>
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So if most things can't saturate gigabit now, and fibre is going to need another run anyways if we get there ... future proof for what (sorts of beasties / media)?<br>
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I'm not objecting to 6 over 5e, I just wonder ... for what?<br>
- especially given the more expensive equipment required at each switch point, and the tighter bend and untwist limits for 6. I'd bet every home 6 installation breaks at each jack / switch / 5e device<->jack cable.<br>
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If you've bent a cable, what, more than 30 degrees, or untwisted a pair, or untwisted pairs more than 1/2 inch - you've just made using cat 6 pointless.<br>
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So my real question was ... what's coming that might need 6 over 5e?<br>
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In house HD video distribution?<br>
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On <a href="tel:13-10-25%2004" value="+13102504" target="_blank">13-10-25 04</a>:57 PM, John Van Ostrand wrote:<br>
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Personally I think any new installation should use Cat 6. It's only<br>
marginally more expensive than 5e but could future-proof your house a<br>
little more. That said 5e will perform very well in a house since runs tend<br>
to be short and will work in cases where Cat 6 is supposedly required. The<br>
way I look at it is that the time spend installing is the the most<br>
expensive cost (even when done yourself) so using a higher grade cable<br>
future-proofs so you can avoid pulling everything out and re-doing cable.<br>
Sometimes I'll use 5e jacks because those are easier to replace.<br>
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