LAN cable
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Hi what would be the best LAN cable for best performance of the router, I was looking into buying a Cat 7 cable to connect from my isp fiber ont to the router. Do you think a cat 7 cable is the best optimal way to go with?
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Hi @Carlos-Martinez - no, Cat7 was not developed as an incremental upgrade to the previous category cable standards and uses an alternative Ethernet header...articles like this may help to explain the situation
https://www.cablematters.com/blog/Networking/what-is-cat7-and-why-you-don-t-need-itThe true successor to Cat6A is Cat8 (Class I) if Cat6A does not meet your current and future needs, but also note that Cat8.1 cables are meant for data centers and are limited in length to around 30 meters / 100 feet
For longer runs Cat6A is still the best option
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@Carlos-Martinez Cat 6 is plenty. The Maximum throughput you are going to expect is 1GB on Ethernet (Cat 5a) will do that. Wireless will be slower. I would do 6A at least in permanent wiring for a little future proofing, or whatever your budget will allow for. I see 10Gb, even 20, and fiber coming down the pike.
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I live in a 200mt apartament and have a 500mbps fiber internet and when I have my router in the center of my house and when I got to my room the wifi drops drastically to 50-60 mbps do you think this could be the cable, I have tried with many routers and all of them give me the same.
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@Penchito-Martinez Has nothing to do with the cable. The wifi speeds are going to drop the farther away you get from the router. This is normal and to be expected.
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I know that but my apartament is not that big and speed drop down to 50mbps when I have my router on my Hallway, ID I put my router in the middle then it will get much worse speeds, I even tried with a mesh network system and I a still did not get what expected
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@Penchito-Martinez Is it a brick home? There must be something either in the construction or interference from the area causing this.
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@UI-AmpliFi ok so you think it might be the construction of the apartment itself, well I think it might because all the walls are made out of brick
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@Penchito-Martinez Brick will inhibit any RF signal from broadcasting properly. This is likely your problem, is there any cat5 wiring in the home?
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@UI-AmpliFi yes all the wire I have is cat 5 but I am planning to see If switch to a cat 6 cable for my wifi to see if this at least gets a bit better
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@Penchito-Martinez
It likely will not... Sorry to burst your bubble!CAT5-e is good for 1 Gbps up to 300 Ft cable length, (limit of ethernet anyways).
Unless you have a bad cable or RJ-45 fitting somewhere, you will be wasting money on going to other cables.
Just my $0.02!
@UI-AmpliFi is 100% right. Brick and wireless DO NOT play well together. Same with sheet metal. RF waves bounce right off of those materials and do not propagate signal well at all.
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@UI-AmpliFi I have one amplifi router do you think that if buy another one and connect it vía etherent will it give good speeds becuase the sginal I have is great the only problem is the speeds that drop down when I not in front of my router
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@Penchito-Martinez Hope that's Cat5e and not Cat5. Cat5 is not reliable for Gb.
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@Penchito-Martinez
Yes, that would work just fine! Just make sure to use CAT5-e or greater to realize gigabit speeds at any distance.Place the other router where you need signal the most and you should be all set to go!
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My walls are bot made brick they are made of block but I think it would be the same thing right? So the problem for speeds dropping down would be the walls right? Because what I find strange is that I get full bars of wifi all over mi aparmtent and they wirst part Is that in some places speeds drop very substantially
