Here's a website about making LAN cables.

[dave.king1]

Cat5e is gigabit not sure how much more you need because you won't get a NIC to go above that unless you go to fibre.

Cat6 is very particular to cable lengths and patch lengths in particular can be problematic and cause interesting losses that aren't as apparent in Cat5e.

In my past life all my servers were fibre connected with fibre campus backbone and gigabit to the desktop via Cisco 6500 Catalyst switches.

All the desktops had 10/100 NICs which supported fully converged voice/data/video. (The voice and video was my domain)

I did wire the services in my sons house in Cat6 because I got it for $0.00

Damn I happy to be retired and don't have to do this stuff anymore.

Edited to add. Don't let that put anyone off using Cat6 just be aware it can be difficult.

[DrNomis_44]

Cat5e is gigabit not sure how much more you need because you won't get a NIC to go above that unless you go to fibre.

Cat6 is very particular to cable lengths and patch lengths in particular can be problematic and cause interesting losses that aren't as apparent in Cat5e.

In my past life all my servers were fibre connected with fibre campus backbone and gigabit to the desktop via Cisco 6500 Catalyst switches.

All the desktops had 10/100 NICs which supported fully converged voice/data/video. (The voice and video was my domain)

I did wire the services in my sons house in Cat6 because I got it for $0.00

Damn I happy to be retired and don't have to do this stuff anymore.

Edited to add. Don't let that put anyone off using Cat6 just be aware it can be difficult.

I think both the LAN ports on my DAW PC and my Laptop are Gigabit LAN ports, and as far as I know, the longest run of Cat.6 cable I've installed is well under the maximum length for Cat.6, so far I haven't noticed any issues.

[dave.king1]

I think both the LAN ports on my DAW PC and my Laptop are Gigabit LAN ports, and as far as I know, the longest run of Cat.6 cable I've installed is well under the maximum length for Cat.6, so far I haven't noticed any issues.

If you are running it around your house you won't go close to Cat6 loop limits but having said that they are much shorter than Cat5e

[DrNomis_44]

If you are running it around your house you won't go close to Cat6 loop limits but having said that they are much shorter than Cat5e

Apparently the maximum length limit for Cat.6 is something like 100m or so, I think the longest run of Cat.6 (the run that goes from my NBN Co. box to my wireless router) I have installed is probably approximately 30m at most, so I reckon I'm good, the other two runs are much shorter.