1Gigabit Lan infrastructure

10-11-2003, 10:22 PM

I currently have a 100Mbit lan running on 5 PC's cat5 cabling.

I have found a very cheap gigabit switch and would like to know if my Cat5
cable will run at this speed, as someone told me I would have to get CAT5e
??? is this true and if so what is the difference between the 2

Thanks

10-11-2003, 11:36 PM

I heard you can run GB Ethernet over cat5 - a server we just got has a gigabit
card that has a RJ45 connection- personally I would only use fibre cable for
gigabit ethernet

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:22:26 +0000 (UTC), "Derek Tweedie"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I currently have a 100Mbit lan running on 5 PC's cat5 cabling.
>
>I have found a very cheap gigabit switch and would like to know if my Cat5
>cable will run at this speed, as someone told me I would have to get CAT5e
>??? is this true and if so what is the difference between the 2
>
>Thanks
>
>

10-12-2003, 12:15 AM

"NoName" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I heard you can run GB Ethernet over cat5 - a server we just got has a
gigabit
> card that has a RJ45 connection- personally I would only use fibre cable
for
> gigabit ethernet
>
>
So how does rj45 work on fibre?

10-12-2003, 08:21 AM

you dont, you can get gigabit cards with either RJ45 or fibre optic connection..
you can not run fibre over RJ45

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:15:47 +0000 (UTC), "Derek Tweedie"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"NoName" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> I heard you can run GB Ethernet over cat5 - a server we just got has a
>gigabit
>> card that has a RJ45 connection- personally I would only use fibre cable
>for
>> gigabit ethernet
>>
>>
>So how does rj45 work on fibre?
>

10-13-2003, 08:44 AM

No ..you will need Cat 6 for 1Gb

IIRC 'Regular' Cat 5 is rated upto 100Mb, Cat 5e (enhanced) upto 350Mb, Cat
6 upto 1Gb.

Cat 5e is made to a higher spec than Cat 5 and has tighter twists.

Guy

Derek Tweedie wrote:
> I currently have a 100Mbit lan running on 5 PC's cat5 cabling.
>
> I have found a very cheap gigabit switch and would like to know if my
> Cat5 cable will run at this speed, as someone told me I would have to
> get CAT5e ??? is this true and if so what is the difference between
> the 2
>
> Thanks

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