My house is less than 10 years old. The standard builders package included a cat5 run to every room, but I paid extra for them to do cat6 instead.
After upgrading my internet service a year or so ago, I had been experiencing random disconnects and link speed slowdowns to my desktop PC in my basement office area.
Today I traced all the wires in the house. The electrician installed cat6 everywhere, except two runs were cat5. Guess where one of them was?
What's especially maddening is that I can see from the unfinished portion of the basement that this cat5 was pulled with a cat6 alongside it, which goes to the outlet directly above it on the main floor. An outlet I never use, as that room is dedicated to piano things.
Oh, and the best part is that all of these cables are stapled to the joists / studs as though they were Romex. So rather than pull through a replacement myself, I might have to hire a pro to do it. 🤬
@voltronic
Staples on the Cat5 and Cat6? Ouch! I've seen Romex shorted because of sloppy stapling.
@Sr0bi
I told all this to my friend across the street who is a former systems engineer for a major ISP, and he was horrified.