On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:13:33 -0500, Keith Bachman <kcbnac at gmail.com> wrote: > I do believe it's rated for Gigabit though, as well as CAT5e, if I > recall correctly. > Yes, Cat5e can do gigabit, but I think the distance you can run it on is quite a bit less than Cat6. That said, we used to have several switches and servers on 6' Cat5e patch cables, that ran at GB speed just fine. Cat6 was about 2x the price of Cat5e the last time I looked, but it shouldn't be too expensive to wire a house, unless you are on a really tight budget. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA [Insert witty .sig here.] _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list