What Did You Do Today

[68fastback]

Camaro engine ...big fun factor in that! ;-)

[Highwayman]

You need to get the feed-thru RJ-45 connectors. We have them at work. They are 1000% easier to use.

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I will look for those since I need refills

[Tommy Gun]

Camaro engine ...big fun factor in that! ;-)

For me.

[68fastback]

For me.

...to put in the Mini?

[tekheavy]

I will look for those since I need refills

If you can't find them, maybe we can work out some type of barter deal.

[Tommy Gun]

...to put in the Mini?

So I can drive it when Terry1234 invites me back.

[Highwayman]

If you can't find them, maybe we can work out some type of barter deal.

What is the difference for me between a Cat5 and a Cat6 connector for a home network?

[68fastback]

Cat 6/6a cable and individual wires likely will not easily fit (sometime can be 'forced') in the individual holes (a la Tek's earlier pic of the improved RJ-45) or the overall cable hole of a cat-5 RJ45. If using cat-6 cable you want to used cat 6 connectors. (Not that it matters much, but if you force cat-6 cable into cat-5 connectors it's a cat-5 installation.)

That said, for phone it hardly matters. Cat-5 is way more than adequate where quad twisted pair cable were originally spec'd (i.e. phone). When I wired the house 20 years ago I did all the data stuff as cat-5 (5e, as I recall) but did the phone system as standard twisted pair phone cable into duplex phone jacks in each wall box, wiring one pair to each of the two outlets and then mutually cross-wiring the other pair to the other jack so that not only are two lines available from every box but, using a specially wired cable, both lines are available from every jack without need of using a splitter. For phone, two-wire is all you'll likely need and I don't plan on ever having more than two land lines anyway (we've kept one for medical reasons b/c power goes out so frequently here).

If I had it to do it over I'd wire using all cat-6a (or whatever the latest cable and correctors are) just because it's not really more expensive and can't hurt to have latest-spec wiring, but it now seems unlikely that, long term, hardwired anything will be a consideration. Presently we no longer use any of the cat-5e data net and commercial router I installed 20 years ago (was a PITA to set-up but got it as a freebie from a friend who wires buildings) but our one remaining hard-wired phone line (which does have a half-dozen phones on it) is the only hard-wire survivor in the house ...on twisted pair -lol

[tekheavy]

Cat 6/6a cable and individual wires likely will not easily fit (sometime can be 'forced') in the individual holes (a la Tek's earlier pic of the improved RJ-45) or the overall cable hole of a cat-5 RJ45. If using cat-6 cable you want to used cat 6 connectors. (Not that it matters much, but if you force cat-6 cable into cat-5 connectors it's a cat-5 installation.)

That said, for phone it hardly matters. Cat-5 is way more than adequate where quad twisted pair cable were originally spec'd (i.e. phone). When I wired the house 20 years ago I did all the data stuff as cat-5 (5e, as I recall) but did the phone system as standard twisted pair phone cable into duplex phone jacks in each wall box, wiring one pair to each of the two outlets and then mutually cross-wiring the other pair to the other jack so that not only are two lines available from every box but, using a specially wired cable, both lines are available from every jack without need of using a splitter. For phone, two-wire is all you'll likely need and I don't plan on ever having more than two land lines anyway (we've kept one for medical reasons b/c power goes out so frequently here).

If I had it to do it over I'd wire using all cat-6a (or whatever the latest cable and correctors are) just because it's not really more expensive and can't hurt to have latest-spec wiring, but it now seems unlikely that, long term, hardwired anything will be a consideration. Presently we no longer use any of the cat-5e data net and commercial router I installed 20 years ago (was a PITA to set-up but got it as a freebie from a friend who wires buildings) but our one remaining hard-wired phone line (which does have a half-dozen phones on it) is the only hard-wire survivor in the house ...on twisted pair -lol

Thanks Tek.

[tekheavy]

Actually he is right, Cat 6 connectors will work fine for Cat 5 cable, but you may have a difficult time with Cat 6 cable into Cat 5 connectors. If you can get Cat 6 cable at a comparable price to Cat 5 cable, go with the Cat 6 due to it's increase throughput, although Cat 6 connectors may be harder to find.