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
on cat6. @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.
@rpardee
If you have cable that works already, you can discourage chewing by adding this stuff. The name brand version is Techflex, and it comes in many different versions.
https://a.co/d/75QyBVG