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 awesome--thanks!
@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
@rpardee @voltronic
no cat bites because it likes biting....
it bites because of spite and likes annoying their humans
God I love my cats
@rpardee @voltronic up to you really, cat8 is more for data centers, while most home cases would be ok with cat6
They'll all work, on a purely electrical level, Ethernet's Ethernet. The difference is the maximum bandwidth you can push through them.
CAT8 is rated to, like, 40 gigabits a second, which is more than you can make.
CAT6 tops out at 10 Gbps, CAT5 at 100Mbps.
@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.