Was looking for some good quality short cables and came across this coupon, looks like it applies to few other of their cables too.-
CAT6a - 1ft,2 Pack = $4.60 https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08GX3BM46?m=A3TG3BZGICQGN6&ref…
Update:
Looks like CAT8 is no longer available - only CAT6a above
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Sorry - just fixed the link
Legend, thanks!
But that's only single.
and 5ft not 3
looks like they have changed it, you can see in the original link it says 2 pack 3ft. Maybe because they sold out it defaults to the 5ft now.
didn't need, but ozbargain!
Do these lose speed if longer?
no, they shouldn't
25/40Gb speeds are possible at distances up to 30 meters or almost 100 feet. If your Ethernet cabling requires further runs, Cat8 cabling can still provide up to 10Gbps speeds at 100 meters or just over 300 feet
3ft external cable? Struggling on use cases for that tbh
I mean, goodness forbid you use them internally…
Nah, I've got my special internal ones for that.
Whip.
We use these for connecting outdoor APs to the surge protector
Thanks, I got a few of each.
Personally anytime i do outdoor cable no matter how good the cable is I would still put it in conduit.
This seems fine for maybe an area that you just cant squeeze it thru but at a 1m length im really struggling to find the use case where you couldnt just put it in a hard or flexible conduit and just use a regular 1m cable.
I just run jelly filled and bury it.
Not sure how much connectivity you can make with 1m of cable. Lol. Outdoors?
1m is what we call a patch cable: To connect patch panels to network switches and routers in a network / server cabinet. You're not going to get much mileage out of this to connect anything really.
This was confusing me a lot as well , WTF do you do with an outdoor 3ft cable?
Probably surveillance equipment (PoE Cameras) and satellite / microwave line of sight network that will connect back into shielded nearby socket.
WTF do you do with an outdoor 3ft cable?
Connect your Starlink antenna?
Yeah the outdoor part is fairly irrelevant. These are like ideally used indoors due to their length, but with the added mostly unusable benefit of having a extreme weather rated jacket on it.
All I cared about was the price, which wasn't terrible for some CAT8 shortys
My nbn speed is 75mbps. Can i use this CAT8 cable to improve the internet buffering experience etc.
According to that genius minister, wireless is cheaper and faster
Lol. You can use it to transfer the qbit's faster too when you hook up your Quantum computer to using CAT8 cables.
I cant imagine so, CAT5 is really old v(5-10 years) and is rated to 100 mbps (faster than your internet) - with CAT5e rated at 1000mbps.
Unless your using a 10+ year old CAT4 cable you wont notice any real benefits.
If you are experiencing speed issues where you're not reaching 75 mbps - its probably your router.
I agree. I get a rock solid 85Mbps on my nbn using my own built cat5e cable connected to an ASUS RT-AX86U
ok. that's a paper spec, which is true. but being a >10 year old cable isn't probably going to be performing at optimal speeds, and if the early day builders are going to care about laying the cables properly (i've seen staples to hold cables in place inside walls) and considering that you have to rip it all out of the walls and do extensive recabling.
yes it will connect to another device at 100mbps, and that's the only thing it'll do if you are lucky.
don't ask me how i know.
don't ask me how i know.
Well now we gonna have to. 🙃
A friend of mine keep arguing a cat8 cable will make home internet fast. lol
Your friend don't have a clue. I can sign up to the slowest nbn 25mbps/5Mbps but if i connect it using cat8 cable i should get 100Mbps/40Mbps easy. Those suckers are getting fleeced. 🤣
Make sense yeah.
do they also buy extra fuses and capacitors to wire to their car batteries to make the spark plugs generate cleaner sparks and get lower fuel consumption while adding 1 bhp?
@slowmo: Mate if you are not getting the high quality fuses and capacitors. Then you are missing out on the extra killer wasps.
No this wont help, the bandwidth congestion will be with your service provider and not with your LAN. There is a small chance that its with your WiFi, but most WiFi's even with crap hardware gets over 75mpbs
If your internet speed is 75Mbps and video is buffering then you've got other problems. Either your provider's connection to the streaming service sucks or you've got internal network issues.
CAT8 sounds like a meme especially for home use. Your networked gear is highly unlikely to do anything above 1GBit (1000Mbps) which is perfectly fine for anyone.
Where does it say 2 pack ?
The link goes to a single 5ft listing.
It was listed there with those other two. We must have cleaned them out
Curious to see if any ozbargainers are actually utilizing CAT8 that really only need CAT5E/6. lol
I would get cat8 cables if its cheaper to get than cat5e or cat6.
Something something future proofing. Yadda yadda.
Waiting for Cat9 myself.
I wouldn’t use anything less.
I’m more of a cat 9 tails person myself
The first deal doesn't seem to exist?