After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn’t know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It’s a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.
I think you went a but overkill with that one, high quality CAT6 cables would have done the same job, but hey, if it works, it works.
High quality cat 5e would have done the job.
Original cables must have been faulty.
I mean, all of my cables are CAT 5e and I can easily pull a gigabit down and up from my NAS… Which has a gigabit NIC, so ig you’re right.
Atleast it’s future proof
The future of ethernet is not expensive cabling, more like switches capable of doing more on current cables. We’ve been seeing this trend for a while.
I know, I was just tryna point out the silver lining