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 modem 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 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 if Cat6A does not meet your current and future needs
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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
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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 the 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
