After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn’t know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It’s a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

    • towerful
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      3 months ago

      I thought T568B at each end was standard practice these days

      • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Depends where in the world you are.

        We use A in Australia and from what I have seen in western Europe A is also used more.