The color of an Ethernet cable is for professionals to easily identify what each cable is connected to. Blue is typically for ...

If you were browsing the internet in the 90s, you likely used a Category 3 cable to facilitate your connection. However, nowadays, the CAT5e cable is the most common ethernet cable with its many ...

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 ...

SP INTERNATIONAL Northern Link Nova 350 Category 5e U/UTP cables have been specifically engineered and thoroughly tested to ...

The CAT label in Ethernet cables stands for “category,” which denotes its standard and specification. You can tell which category the cables belong to by the number suffix each one has.

It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused over the different categories and what ...

But choosing between Ethernet cable options is complex, and making the right selection starts with understanding the distinctions between the latest categories of cabling: CAT 6, CAT 7 and CAT 8.

“Although CAT 5E is supposed to work, the distance and the temperature and even the cable gauge have an impact on reliability, often what we call the signal-to-noise ratio. There are all of these ...

If you’ve been browsing Ethernet cables online you may have seen that they come with names like CAT 5, CAT 6, CAT 7, and CAT 8. And no, we’re not talking about the feline kind of CAT…meow!

If you’ve been browsing Ethernet cables online you may have seen that they come with names like CAT 5, CAT 6, CAT 7, and CAT 8. And no, we’re not talking about the feline kind of CAT…meow!