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dcole13

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#150917 7-Aug-2014 16:59
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Hi,

I am currently planning on wiring my house with some type of cable for internet. I would like to future proof it as I will be in this house for 4 years or more, and my parents won't be moving for 10 years+. I wanted to see what would be the best for wiring my house, Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a or Fibre. I already have quite a bit of Cat5e, as my father is an electrician and has a lot of spare cable lying around. I would use this, but as it can only support up to 1Gbps and I want to do some network upgrades, such as moving all our data on to a NAS and running a media server, I don't think this will be enough as I also do high bitrate RAW video editing while other people watch movies, TV shows etc. so I am looking into 10Gbps in the future. I might also look into fibre, but since the switches, NICs, cable etc. are all quite expensive, I don't really see any benefit in using it over Cat6 or Cat6a.

What would you recommend I use for this setup?

Thanks




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Coil
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  #1104241 7-Aug-2014 17:00
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Cat6 will be fine :)
the issue with 10Gb/s is that your hard disk IO or SSD IO will be slower than the network unless in raid.



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  #1104242 7-Aug-2014 17:01
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Wire the house up with plenty of Cat6 and you will be safe,

Fibre is a bit of a waste in a home environment considering you can go up to 10gbit on cat6




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  #1104251 7-Aug-2014 17:10
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Don't even bother with Cat6a. Just a complete waste of money.

Cat6 is cheap and far easier to install than 6a.

J A Russell stock all the Dynamix stuff so could sort you out with either.



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  #1104268 7-Aug-2014 17:31
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dcole13:
chevrolux: Don't even bother with Cat6a. Just a complete waste of money.

Cat6 is cheap and far easier to install than 6a.

J A Russell stock all the Dynamix stuff so could sort you out with either.

I may look into using Cat6 for most stuff and Cat6a for the longer distance connections.




Unless you are wireing upfor a multi rack/multi server a Data Warehouse forget Cat6a you are wasteing money - for a domestic situation Cat6 will do absolutly fine - no matter how long yoour runs are or what you think you need to run over it

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