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Cat 8 Ethernet Cable 10ft Network LAN Cord Cable 40 Gigabit 2000MHz $11.89 + Delivery ($0 Prime) @ CableCreation Amazon AU

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Fastest and newest net cable.
Found out my 2020 router came with a 2001 cat 6 cable so bought this to upgrade.
Lightning deal for prime

Product Features
Cable Type: CAT8 SFTP
Cable OD(Overall Dimension)：6.0mm
Conductor Gauge: 26 AWG
Conductor Material: 100% Bare Copper
Transmission Speed: supports 40Gpbs-T
2000MHz bandwidth（4*Cat 6A）
Connector: Gold-Plated RJ45(8P8C) - Male to Male
CableCreation Network Double Shielded Ethernet cables offer universal connectivity to computers and network components, including computers & peripheral, like routers, switch boxes, Playstations, Xbox, PS3, Ps4, hubs, DSL/cable modems, patch panels, network adapters, network printers & network attached storage devices etc. Particularly suitable for computer data centers, cloud server centers, cloud storage, enterprise servers and enterprise Ethernet switches.

Category 8 offers four times the bandwidth of Category 6A cabling, with internal impairments specified up to 2 GHz. Support 40GBASE-T applications for short distances (up to30meters) for switch-to-server connections.

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  • jwu56 on 20/12/2020 - 16:13
    +14

    I mean, no need for a cat8 cable if australia internet can only achieve gigabit.

      • jwu56 on 20/12/2020 - 16:14

        Yeah, for internal connections

      • ashanrath on 20/12/2020 - 16:26
        +13

        Only if you have at least 10G network cards… Not exactly widespread or cheap.

      • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 17:08
        +18

        There's 0 difference between Cat 6 and Cat 8 in terms of max transmission speed up to ~55m of cable length, and then only if you need 10 GB/s. Otherwise there's no difference at all if you're only using 1GB/s devices. So a 3m Cat 8 cable isn't going to make any difference over a Cat 6 cable unless you're joining it to another very long cable directly and using 10GB/s devices.

        • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 17:18
          +1

          Agreed. Google, and you'll find heaps of people saying cat6 is all you need

          • BenMHarvey on 20/12/2020 - 17:50
            +6

            @[Deactivated]: I'm running 10gb networking at home and I'll be perfectly happy with a 2001 Cat6 cable.

            Honestly your just wasting money mate.

            • mfazackerley on 20/12/2020 - 17:58
              +1

              @BenMHarvey: The router he says he's using I'd on gigabit anyway haha. Not even 10gbit. Zero benefit to this cable.

            • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 18:16

              @BenMHarvey: Er that's not what I mean if you read again

            • jwu56 on 20/12/2020 - 19:59

              @BenMHarvey: What hardware do you run? I'm looking into 10gbit networking for 4k Plex streaming and some high speed file transfers, and looking for some hardware that doesn't kill the wallet ;).

            • Caring on 20/12/2020 - 21:02

              @BenMHarvey: Likewise, I'm also running 10GBe networking and on Cat6 (not even Cat6a). Transfer speed is 890 megabytes per second - which is truly versatile. Not sure why anyone would need Cat8.

  • PAEz on 20/12/2020 - 16:14
    +9

    10ft = 3.048 meters

    • Yummy on 20/12/2020 - 16:31
      +8

      Thx mate. I thought I was in USBargain site.

      • Gina Rinehart on 20/12/2020 - 22:17

        FYI this is a network cable, not USB cable.

        • Yummy on 20/12/2020 - 22:53
          +3

          I see your grandma is holding a phallic object.

  • vociferate on 20/12/2020 - 16:15

    What happened after you upgraded your cable?

    • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 16:16
      +17

      Op can now download the internet.

    • Click_It on 20/12/2020 - 16:37
      +2

      He was able to connect to the internet for the first time in years, his cat 6 cable was faulty.

    • mfazackerley on 20/12/2020 - 17:57
      +1

      He's only using a gigabit router anyway haha (read the comments below). So precisely nothing would have changed

  • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 16:15
    +4

    Transmission Speed: supports 40Gpbs-T

    That's nice but make sure your router supports it or you're just wasting money on this cable.

    • jwu56 on 20/12/2020 - 16:16

      Yeah. Those routers can cost quite a lot.

    • Seafoodrice on 20/12/2020 - 16:56
      +1

      Is there any consumer grade router supports 10Gbps at all? Please advise.

      • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 17:03
        +2

        You can find some in the pro-sumer segment but an NBN NTD only supports 1GB/s anyway. Unless you're on a business connection in a CBD you're out of luck. Switching equipment is coming down but even Cat6 will do 10GB/s over short distances and Cat6A over much longer distances. For homes even Cat 6A is pretty future proof, and then I'd only bother if it were being put into walls.

        No harm in buying higher Cat cable, though generally only if it's cheap, which this is not. I don't even think there's any 40GB/s RJ45 routers/switches, it's all Fibre / QSFP+ DACs at that point.

        • Wayne7497 on 20/12/2020 - 17:55

          Ahhh but nbn is not only kid on the block plenty Wisp out there.. and speeds well here's an example

          https://www.speedtest.net/result/d/a60b9727-8659-4445-bc94-a…

          Mind you he is the owner of the wisp lol

          • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2020 - 00:42

            @Wayne7497: Cat 6 will still support faster than that over 3m :o

            Also that WISP (Node One) doesn't seem to offer plans to anyone other than the owner faster than 1GB symmetrical so, I guess, if you're in a CBD or own an ISP.

      • Caring on 20/12/2020 - 21:04

        Please see my previous OzBargain post: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/533662

  • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 16:16
    +5

    To be honest, even 10gig (or multi gig 2.5/5) support is difficult (expensive).
    Sure many NIC by Intel or Aquantia can support it… the switch is the most expensive bit (excluding ex-enterprise SFP gear).
    Please at least fact check before rushing off to buy CAT8.

    • Covid19 on 20/12/2020 - 16:20

      Question : These 4/8/16Gbps FC cards that usually is seen when buying used servers - can they used as normal NIC cards to do 10Gbps connection?

      • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 16:29
        +1

        Most enterprise stuff is SFP… you would need to check but likely not. The switch and both clients need to support the speeds for any benefit.
        Link aggregation can help but that’s required to be supported be router

    • chrism238 on 20/12/2020 - 16:20
      -2

      And those who can afford a router, don’t read OzBargain.

      • Rukiata on 20/12/2020 - 16:22
        -7

        Unless you get the Mi AIoT Router AX3600 wifi 6 for under 150.

        • ashanrath on 20/12/2020 - 16:31
          +6

          Umm no. That router only supports 1Gbps over ethernet. You don't even need CAT6 for that, let alone CAT8

          https://www.mi.com/global/mi-aiot-router-ax3600/specs/

          I honestly can't see much of a use case got CAT8 outside of a data centre just yet. Even CAT6a will do 10Gbps up to 100 metres, if you really wanted to purchase the necessary gear to go with it.

        • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 16:32

          I’m almost certain it’s gigabit Ethernet, the wifi speeds are also theoretical like any and affected by medium and radio interference….

        • Trance N Dance on 20/12/2020 - 16:34
          +1

          Except the network ports on that router is only gigabit (at least from the documentation Mi gives)

      • Wayne7497 on 20/12/2020 - 17:40
        +1

        I read ozbargain..,lol my gear used at home n wisp

        ASUS RT-AX89X AX6000 with 10gbe
        ARISTA DCS-7050T-64-R 48 x 1gbe/10gbe

        That said a lot cheaper cat 8 deals out there than this..

        And really it makes only a small difference on my network very small. N that's server to server

        30m limitation doesn't help me much compared to cat6 or 7

        Sfp + much better option

    • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 16:22
      +4

      Please at least fact check before rushing off to buy CAT8.

      You can't tell me what to do. Plugging this on my 10mb hub.

      #madlad

      • Click_It on 20/12/2020 - 16:39
        +1

        I use mine as a bike chain

        • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 16:40

          Imma use it as skip rope. I reckon I can skip rope faster with a cat8 cable.

          • thedriver on 21/12/2020 - 19:37

            @xoom: At 2000mHz, that's 2,000,000,000 skips per second.

    • PR0r on 20/12/2020 - 17:17

      I would guess that disk read/write speed would also be an overlooked factor?

  • BROKENKEYBOARD on 20/12/2020 - 16:22
    +4

    Found out my 2020 router came with a 2001 cat 6 cable so brought this to upgrade.

    What kind of router did you buy that would benefit from a Cat 8 cable at such low lengths?

      • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 16:30
        +13

        Xiaomi MI AX3600 WiFi 6 5G Router Specification

        Physical interface

        1*10/100/1000 WAN (Auto MDI/ MDIX)

        3*10/100/1000 LAN (Auto MDI/ MDIX)

        Yeah. You're not really getting any benefit with a cat8 cable.

        • MrGareth on 20/12/2020 - 16:38

          Yep you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between cheap cat5e and this cat8 on a router like that…

          • Budju on 20/12/2020 - 16:49
            +3

            @MrGareth: These are cheap - let him have his cat8.

  • scuderiarmani on 20/12/2020 - 16:44
    +3

    People just up voted cause it sounds cool or do they actually think they needed it too?

    • jace88 on 20/12/2020 - 16:56

      Because we are all rational on OzBargain.

    • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 17:00
      +2

      A little from column A and a little from column B.

  • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2020 - 17:03
    +2

    Home and small business networking has been stuck on 1Gbit for 20 years. Its the tech time forgot or something like that.

    • ashanrath on 20/12/2020 - 17:52
      +1

      More a situation of "if it ain't broke". Realistically, it's only over the last few years that there might be an argument for 10G in the business (outside of a data centre or backhaul). In a small business or home, nothing can really saturate that to the point that it's worth upgrading. Internet? Nope. 4k streaming? Not even close. Gaming? Nope. You may see a difference when transferring files SSD > LAN > SSD, but only with good equipment and the difference would barely be noticeable to the average user.

      There just nothing that can really take advantage of it yet.

      • nmartin84 on 21/12/2020 - 00:26

        Can't disagree with you more. The moment that SSD products became a thing was the moment all networking tiers should have started to transition to offer 10G equipment, so that by the time it was common, the switches/routers that you would buy to go along with that new desktop/laptop would support the speeds the drives are capable of.

        It is utterly ridiculous that people have faster wifi in their house than the ports on their router/switch supports.

        Now that NVME is pretty standard it makes an absolute mockery of 1Gbps LAN.

        • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2020 - 00:47
          +1

          The average user doesn't really use anything but Wifi these days, and there's 10GB/s options for the rest of us. If you stack enough NVME drives in a server the CPU becomes the bottleneck (though there are moves / some new enterprise tech to get around that). At least Apple (M1 options excluded) started supporting 10GB/s to start to bring it mainstream, though 2.5/5G seems to be where most other integrators are focusing in the home.

  • AEKaBeer on 20/12/2020 - 17:25

    Lost me at "brought". 😬

    • xoom on 20/12/2020 - 17:26

      Now I'm wondering where did he bring the cat8 cable.

  • Euthyphro on 20/12/2020 - 17:38

    CableCreation is a Chinese company. Both Australia and China use metric system, but this pretentious company still tries to use the imperial system while selling in Australia.

  • supersaintly on 20/12/2020 - 18:05
    +3

    Came here for the comments. Much like buying Monster HDMI cables. Agreed that there's absolutely no need for Cat8, when Cat6A

    • Mitch889 on 20/12/2020 - 18:41

      Exactly what I was thinking. This guy probably bought a $100 HDMI cable to improve the quality of the picture from his streaming box. Gotta have the best HDMI for that 40Gbps internet he’s now getting!

  • theg00s3 on 20/12/2020 - 18:25

    Cat8 is only really useful for datacentres where they have to transfer a large amount of data over short distances

  • aldroid on 20/12/2020 - 18:28
    +2

    Will this cable be compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?

  • SurprisedPanda on 20/12/2020 - 18:30

    Here for knowledge exchange only.

  • Kdw26488 on 20/12/2020 - 18:43

    Can confirm what a lot have been saying.

    I have a cat 6, 7 and 8 cable on a GB connection with Superloop and I always achieve the same 941mbs result

  • FuRyZ on 20/12/2020 - 18:48

    The fact the gauge is 26awg and not 24awg, means I would question if the quality of this cable is good enough to reach cat8 speed standards. I have a HDBase-T repeater in my house and I use cat7 cables to reliably run 4K signals from my home server to my TV on the other side of the house. I spent a lot of time researching different standards of ethernet cable, cable thickness, shielding, etc to make sure I maximise my bandwidth. Look at a reliable cable manufacture like Monoprice, you will see all their cat8 cables are thicker gauge 24awg.

  • ratoloko on 21/12/2020 - 00:38
    -1

    I don't know why everybody is judging him.

    I swapped all my Cat5 cables to Cat8
    I paid even cheaper than this post on a deal from Amazon.
    Yes, it's overkill but since it's almost the same price as the other Cat cables, what's the problem??

    You have a 40Gbps cable that you will never reach that, and then what?

    You all talk like if nobody here has a 700-1000cc motorcycle or V6-V8 car knowing that in Australia the roads are mainly 50-60km/h, with luck you have 80-110.

    People man, ffs

    • thedriver on 21/12/2020 - 19:48

      CAT5e cables from $3.00 for 3 metres.
      On a gigabit router (10/100/1000) a CAT5e cable would be just as fast and stable as this cable.
      And no, the CAT8 cable wouldn't start downloading anything faster.
      But a V8 car can accelerate faster, overtake faster, tow more weight. There are benefits from a faster car regardless of the speed limit of the road. There are NO benefits to using a cable with a faster spec.

      If you want to use an analogy, it is more like selling a fast car than is speed limited to 200km/h for $50,000.
      But also selling exactly the same car, but with a different artificial speed limit of 300km/h for $100,000.
      They're both constrained to the road speed limit and are otherwise identical in acceleration etc.

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