Category 6a cable is 10Gb/s capable - and is currently the industry standard for new 10Gb installations. FYI BL-10GX12-1000 cable costs about $0.55/ft in bulk and the jacks cost around $8-12ea depending on where you buy them / quantity.
Cancer, just an FYI, but cat 6A cable is 23ga, not 24 ga - I would be suspicious of what I was getting if ordering via that first link.
It is also my understanding that "Category 7" is not yet a TIA/EIA standard - so unless you have a fluke and are capable of vetting the quality of the cable yourself, you really don't know that what you're buying is cat7.
Balanced cable in a home RARELY has signal issues, unless there's a termination problem, in which case "better" cable won't fix it (proper termination would).
Improperly shielded / improperly grounded shielding can yield significantly worse performance than UTP cabling. Thought you might want to know.
OP go to pingtest.net and run the test. this was mine:
Edited by u3b3rg33k - 9/23/12 at 1:22pm
Cancer, just an FYI, but cat 6A cable is 23ga, not 24 ga - I would be suspicious of what I was getting if ordering via that first link.
It is also my understanding that "Category 7" is not yet a TIA/EIA standard - so unless you have a fluke and are capable of vetting the quality of the cable yourself, you really don't know that what you're buying is cat7.
Balanced cable in a home RARELY has signal issues, unless there's a termination problem, in which case "better" cable won't fix it (proper termination would).
Improperly shielded / improperly grounded shielding can yield significantly worse performance than UTP cabling. Thought you might want to know.
OP go to pingtest.net and run the test. this was mine:
Edited by u3b3rg33k - 9/23/12 at 1:22pm
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