if I'm ordering an ethernet cable for my home network, do I need to worry whether it's cat5, 6, 8 whatever?

I didn't realize there were cats > 5.

Ironically, I'm replacing one that my cat chewed all to hell.

@rpardee you might want to use cat 6, specially if you have gigabit ports on your computer and router.

cat 5 (in my opinion) is too fragile and prone to failure, if this happens it will revert back to 100mbit connections or simply fail

@elmaxx
on cat6.

@rpardee

@voltronic @elmaxx so would this not work for me?

https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-DanYee-Braided-Professional-Plated/dp/B073RZG1G4

@voltronic @elmaxx I'm happy to spend a whole $9 on something that's overcapacity or whatever, so long as it has the braiding that my cat dislikes chewing.