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is a cat6 STP cable worth it over a cat5e UTP, im thinking of replacing the wire between my wireless router and modem, the modem is my cable box along with all my tv stuff, and a small network cable runs to my router which is up on a shelf, which goes past power and video cables. will the cat6 make any difference. cut down on any interference etc.
i wouldnt think a noticible difference would occur...but i may be wrong
All components need to be Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) in order to use Cat6 to its full potential.
Your modem in nowhere near that speed. Cat5 is fine.
it was more the shielded bit i was thinking off, normal cables are about £2 for 2m but ebuyer had a cat6 stp for around £3.50 for 2m
it was just that the cables goes over alot of electrical lines.
Standard ethernet NICs are not designed to work with STP.
There's no facility to connect the shield to ground, so it will simply act as a giant antenna and probably make any crosstalk/interference worse.
Stick to UTP.
As I said, Cat5 should work fine. I haven't ever had interference problems with it.
Check your ethernet statistics, if you have zero errors like this
then all the data is getting through ok.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>netstat -e
Interface Statistics
Received Sent
Bytes 6273941317 861890009
Unicast packets 904788 1176925
Non-unicast packets 838 307
Discards 0 0
Errors 0 0
Unknown protocols 0
I've sent 2 errors, what does that mean?:unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by zaphodiv
Probably insignficant. A couple of errors might be explaned by things like the network card being turned on while something else on the network was sending a packet so the machine only got half of it.
Depends on the length of time and the amount of data. A couple of errors when the machine has been on for a week or you have shifted gigabytes dosn't matter, the bad packets get discarded and higher level stuff resends the data.