On Nov 16, 1:19*pm, Tabby wrote:
On Nov 16, 12:28*pm, "RoundSquare" bigbad@hole wrote:

I'm about to change the dining room floor and while at it thought I would
run some Cat5e to where the TV / PS3 lives back to the router / slave PC in
the hall cupboard.
Is there any advantage on using Cat6?
The rest of the house has been done in Cat5.
I'd hate to do it then find I really need Cat6 in a year or so.

Cheers.

How far do you think computers will change in 10 or 20 years?

;-) far enough to not need Cat5 or Cat6! I don't think any network
cabling you could have conceived of in 1990 would be in any way
relevant today.

Cat6 doesn't seem to be taking over yet, but the incremental price
difference isn't _that_ great - it's nothing compared with your time
_now_, never mind the time involved in re-doing it when all decoration
has been done.

I wonder if Cat6 might be even more versatile in the exotic non-IP-
related uses of Cat5? e.g.
http://www.nexxia.co.uk/products.asp...%20AV%20Baluns
(link is only an example - you can make this stuff yourself quite
cheaply)

Cheers,
David.