Network Cables
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: Livy
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.
Posted by: suprafreak6
i wouldnt think a noticible difference would occur...but i may be wrong
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
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.
Posted by: Livy
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.
Posted by: lynx
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.
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
As I said, Cat5 should work fine. I haven't ever had interference problems with it.
Posted by: zaphodiv
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
Posted by: tesco
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:
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.