Costs of XstreamHD thread

[K9SAT]

I guess I am missing something or i am having a brain fart. Wireless N is a gigabit rate? If I want to be wired I would do cat6 not cat5e right?

N is no were near gigabit, but it's over 100 megs! Its just as good as having a lan connection when it comes to surfing the web and doing most normal activities over the lan, but for very high data like pushing fully produced Highdef video, its not as good as having that gigabit connection.

[Koilvr]

Here is a c/p from a home network page that should answer your question:

Question: What are the transmission speed for Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6 network cable?

Cat 5 and Cat 5e UTP cables can support 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet. Although Cat 5 cable may support to some degree in Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps), it performs below standard during high-data transfer scenarios, so I do not recommend you to use Cat 5 cable in Gigabit Ethernet, use Cat 5e instead (of course Cat 6 is the best).

Cat 6 UTP cable is manufactured targeting on Gigabit Ethernet and backward compatible with 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. It performs better then Cat 5 cable with higher transmission rate and lower transmission error. If you plan to have Gigabit network, look for Cat 5e or Cat 6 UTP cables.

Note: Cat 3 UTP cable? Forget about it... It's not popular anymore since it can only support 10 Mbps Ethernet.

OK brain fart over got it thanks