[GTALUG] USB to Ethernet Dongles WAS: Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Sep 9 15:26:31 EDT 2023


On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 12:06:41PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Gret for you but did they use cat 5 or 5e wiring. Today you might need
> cat 8 (6 and 7 seems to have been obsoleted - - - dunno).
> I would have dragged in conduit then you would be very future proof -

Anything installed now still tends to be 5E or 6.  5E is good enough
for 10GbaseT up to 30m, so perfectly fine in a house.  6 increases it
to 55m and 6A to 100m.  I am perfectly happy with 5E or 6 in the walls.
I am still trying to get 10G equipment figured out so I can start
using that.

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Len Sorensen


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