Picking the right network cable can feel confusing. There are different types, like Cat 5, Cat 6, and Cat 7, and they all seem similar at first. If you have ever looked at the wires behind your router ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAT-5 cable provides an enormous cost benefit over coax. The average cost of a 100m of CAT-5 cable is $20 while the average cost of a 100m of Coax cable could easily exceed $240. Furthermore, wiring ...

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 ...

I have an intel ethernet card in a sites computer and am trying to hook it up to an Intel Router approx 500 feet away in the telco room. We have wiremapped the cable out and it is checking out fine.

Ultranet is a protocol created by audio manufacturer Behringer to transmit up to 16 channels of 24-bit sound over a Cat-5 cable. It’s not an open standard, though: Behringer doesn’t offer an API or ...

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 ...

Niles Audio announced the company's new line of nine CAT-5 Baluns connectivity solutions that allow the installation of extended cable runs over longer distances, and enable system expansion in ...

As colleges and universities roll out Wi-Fi 6 on their campuses, they must decide whether to upgrade their cabling from CAT 5 to CAT 6 or 6A. Joel Keller spent more than a decade in IT before becoming ...

PESA Switching Systems' CAT PAWS twisted pair RGBHV transmitter and receiver PESA Switching Systems has introduced its new CAT PAWS twisted pair RGBHV transmitter and receiver. Capable of driving an ...