Category 5 (CAT 5) cable is a multipair (usually four-pair) cable that consists of twisted-pair conductors, used mainly for data transmission. Basic CAT 5 cable was designed for characteristics of up ...

Cat 8 is overkill for most, but if you want the best of the best in terms of shielding and performance, it's as good as it gets. This particular gold-plated version comes in sizes from 1.5 to 150 feet ...

There is a special type of Category 5, or Cat 5, cable that can be used to connect two computers without the use of a router or switch. These cables are known as crossover cables and they have ...

With the world dominance of personal computer systems, demand for long distance component video transmission is increasing at an unprecedented pace. The applications areas of greatest demand are KVM ...

Belden 1872A MediaTwist Cat 6 cable. Last month, we covered unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) to carry audio. The highest-quality UTP is computer cable, premise/data cable. It's called Cat 5, Cat 5e or ...

HDBaseT, which can send massive amounts of audio, video, and data hundreds of feet over cheap, simple Cat 5 Ethernet cables, is coming to an AV device near you. David reviews TVs and leads the ...

Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling became prevalent, now that 2.5 and even 5 Gbit Ethernet has trickled into the mainstream, a pertinent question ...

Niles Audio Corporation, The First Name in Custom Installation, has announced its line of HDMI CAT-5 Baluns have been named the recipient of the Audioholics Consumer Electronics Award in the “Baluns & ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gefen has introduced the rack-mountable Gefen 1:5 Splitter for HDMI over Cat 5, which allows any ...

I'm pretty sure those two places sell what you need. The trickiest part, at least for me, is running the CAT5 through the walls. Sometimes it gets caught up on something and no matter how much you ...

Anybody tried to use the other wires in a cat 5 cable for anything else? I'm assuming a 100M network and there are 2 pair left which might be nice for video/audio or something like that.