Thanks! That's very helpful.I am just north of Indianapolis and have ran a mix of these two. I started with the Monoprice cable, but it was out of stock when I needed more. My last couple orders have been the Truecable cable.
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I call it future proofing your network infrastructure and to me running Cat6 is just a no brainer because it's a much better quality cable than Cat5e. I work in commercial A/V and we don't use Cat5e for anything, so everything I run is either Cat6 and up or fiber optic.For all of my cams I ran cat5e external rated cable, even for internal runs. Really didn’t see the point of running cat6 at all given that the cams only run at 100mbs.
In fact you can call me old school, my entire house is cabled in cat5e as when this was done cat6 either wasn’t around, wasn’t popular or maybe just too expensive, can’t remember
Exactly.cat5e is fine for CCTV use, but running cat6 or better isn't wrong either.
Running cheaper and less capable LAN cable is not where you want to be frugal because it is the backbone of the entire system. If you want to have lower bandwidth capacity and higher risks for crosstalk interference to save a few bucks then run Cat5e. If you want higher bandwidth capacity with less risk of crosstalk interference and don't like the idea of having to replace all of your now inadequate Cat5e cables when technology advances beyond Cat5e 100MHz bandwidth limitations then run Cat6 and rest easy.Exactly.
Here we have a newbie asking the question. And others will someday see this thread. I liken this to the questions around getting a PC for BI. Most folks say get a used business machine on ebay. But many have built a high-end, high-cost machine for this use. Neither are wrong. Sure the cost of Cat6 is not that much more than Cat5e. But we have folks here that fret about a $20 difference in cams or whine about $36 yearly BI maintenance cost. So some folks may really need to be frugal in their systems.
If you want to future-proof your cable plant, then skip Cat6 and go straight to Cat6a. As the table above shows, both Cat5e and Cat6 will certify to carry 1000BaseT when properly installed and terminated. In fact regular ol', unshielded Cat5 will carry 1000BaseT up to 100m. None of these 3 is rated to run 10GBaseT.I call it future proofing your network infrastructure and to me running Cat6 is just a no brainer because it's a much better quality cable than Cat5e. I work in commercial A/V and we don't use Cat5e for anything, so everything I run is either Cat6 and up or fiber optic.
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