Now that Cat6, Cat6a, and multi-gigabit Ethernet are readily available and cheap, Cat5e feels like a cable category that should have retired years ago. My homelab still runs on Cat5e, mainly because I ...

No matter how fast modern Wi-Fi routers have become, they still can't compete with a good wired connection. Offering a combination of performance and reliability that even the fanciest Wi-Fi 7 routers ...

There are many different types of ethernet cables, each fulfilling a specific purpose. If you were browsing the internet in the 90s, you likely used a Category 3 cable to facilitate your connection.

Sending audio, video and control signals over twisted pair cables have become common practice in the contemporary marketplace. There is a good reason for this. Twisted pair cables are cheap, ...

Samuel has spent years writing about mobile carriers and their networks following a stint working as a technician in a carrier phone store. Whether it's helping people avoid 36-month payment plans, or ...

For most of the past few decades, new Ethernet installations have been dominated by Cat5, Cat5e, and Cat6 cabling. Cat5 saw its stock rise in the mid-to-late 90s, Cat5e had its heyday in the 2000s, ...

Samir Makwana is a technology journalist and editor from India since past 18 years and his work appears on MakeUseOf, HowToGeek, GSMArena, BGR, GuidingTech, The Inquisitr, TechInAsia, TechWiser, and ...

I was looking at this page for some bulk cat5e... I knew there was cat5 and cat5e, but I thought all cat5e was supposed to work with gigabit ethernet... Why is some of it labled 100MHz and some of it ...