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Which is Better.. Cat6 or Cat6a Ethernet Cable?
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Hi there
@steveC
It's not the energy used in the wifi transmissions but the damage done by the mining, extraction and manufacturing of the copper wiring !!! that's the actual problem -- the energy used for wifi can be totally "green" !!! in Iceland pretty well all of the energy is either geothermal or hydro -- 100% green !!! --Other places also are working on Green energy too -- UK would do very well if it re-instated tidal barrage projects such as could be done at the Humber Estuary , River Ribble estuary, and Bristol Channel --probably a load of other suitable places too -- tides 100% predictable all year round - not weather dependant either and very energy efficient (much better than wind farms actually) !!
The Humber estuary would be a good starting point --often pass through it on a Ferry from Hull (UK) to Europoort / Rotterdam (NL) and it looks a brilliant and obvious place to do it. Would generate loads of high tech / high skill jobs in an area of the UK that could do with more of those. (BTW for people who know Yorkshire Spurn Point is really magnificient to view from the Ferry at the right time of the year).
I still think - certainly within a few year the whole idea of using in a domestic home things like LAN cables will be as outdated as the idea of people trying to find "public Landline telephone boxes" --or even have landlines at all.
Cheers
jimbo
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Posts : 5,048 Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.New #33
This was hanging around in my head. There is a Cat 6e.
What is the difference between CAT6 and CAT6e? | ICC
That is not the only source. I wanted to clear this up.
FWIW.
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New #34
My copper only turns "green" when the insulation is stripped away and oxidation sets in. That aside, there's no "green" here.Joking aside ... geothermal is a point-solution ... one that only works in a few places.
Hydro finds narrow application, too, but it disrupts river systems. Better than burning sulfur-coal, but not a real solution.
Solar? Wind? Until there comes a solution in the form of energy storage these are going nowhere.
Maybe we'll have fusion in a few decades.
The best solution: Let industry work on the issues. The only viable solutions will those that are affordable for me and profitable to the seller. Anything else is just hot air.
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Posts : 5,048 Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.
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There is no e class for Cat-6. TIA cleared that up a long time ago why they never adopted the e Class after Cat-5. The difference between 5, 6 and 7 are shielding, more twists and gauge of the wire. You only see Cat-7 & 8 in Data Centers were there are 40gbps backbones. Cat-7 punch down requires different tools and you need to know what you are doing to terminate. Cat-6 is overkill in the home and even small business and Enterprise where you see no more than 1000mbps, let alone the majority of homes and small businesses are only using 100mbps. Wifi has become the class-defacto standard now with moving digital media in the home to devices such as smart tv's and streaming media sticks/devices.
Wifi has beaten out wired infrastructure in moving large amounts of digital data for streaming media.
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Posts : 5,048 Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.New #38
Hi.
I'm just debating the existence of Cat 6e.
Why is Cat 6e clearly documented and available from multiple sources?
Here's another vendor that I do business with:
https://www.anixter.com/en_us/search...earchFlag=true
How do you explain this?
Thanks.
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Because there never was, nor is there even e class Category cable for Ethernet after Category 5. Those sites have zero clue how classification of Data/Telecom cabling works.
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