Went to see what other cable they had on sale after this DP Cable Post.
Flat Cat7 Ethernet Cable
USB C to USB C Cable (3M, 2 Pack)
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100w gone now.
Yeah it is that same listing… I wanted to buy 100w but I didn't know where to find it so I just brought a few 60w
I don’t think your point stands, these are a very good price, regardless of cat.
Can't find a 3m Cat5 or Cat6 for less than $5. Please, link your options for less than $4?
5m gone now
Just missed the 5m…
By 5 minutes
I wonder if the cables being flat affect the properties of the UTP cables.
Are they not STP?
Cat 7 by definition is STP
Exactly but the pairs are shielded individually if I recall correctly, so they can still be somewhat flat
Snowboard Kids?
Cat7 Ethernet is not a traditional upgrade over Cat6!
Cat7 is not an IEEE standard and was radically different to the development process of prior standards, and was done by a group of companies to try and corner the market ahead of an official standard. Cat7 doesn't even use a traditional RJ45 connector.
Cat6A has basically identical performance to Cat7 (Cat6A is the newer standard) and is much more widely used. Cat8 is the next generation of product past Cat6A. In almost all cases, you are better off with Cat6A or Cat8.
wow good to know
That's kinda crazy, does that mean IEEE will try and come out with a real cat 7 standard later? Just seems kinda wrong that they can take a standard and make a new one that seemingly runs off the reputation of an old one.
Like if I brought out a cable called USB-X you'd assume it was some agreed upon term
So Cat 8 is good?
Yes but extremely expensive and not super easy to work with. More for use in a data centre than in home. Cat 6 is still best value to install at home, with 6A being a valid upgrade, just much more expensive. Once you are getting to the point of needing Cat 8, your networking setup would be many thousands or tens of thousands.
not super easy to work with
Don't you just plug the cable into the router?
I've seen some cat8 not too expensive.
@congo: Cat6A can run 10 Gbit/s. Cat8 can run 40Gbit/s.
Even just maxxing out Cat6A will require ridiculously expensive hardware unless you have specific needs for it. Enterprise switches for $2-5k. Each NIC for your PCs would probably be a couple of hundred dollars for something decent.
To max out short distance Cat8 (like a datacentre) you'd need 40G switches which pretty much aren't a thing - at that point everybody uses SFP. Even for 25G the hardware basically doesn't exist, and what you'd manage to put together would be tens of thousands.
Look up specs like bending radius etc. Cat8 is stiffer, heavier, much larger bending radius etc. Just generally harder to deal with when Cat6A does everything you would need it to.
@AutomationGuy: A lot of modern high end motherboards come with 10 GbE NICs, it's the switching hardware that's incredibly expensive at the moment. 2.5 GbE switches are slowly becoming affordable but we're probably a while off on 10.
And yea 40 in a home environment isn't happening. Not this decade, probably not ever.
Will i need cat7 if im upgrading my internet to a 250 NBN plan? or is cat6 enough?
i found that the drives on my NAS couldn't write data faster enough to need more than Cat6, so you may also have bottle necks that limit what you need.
I doubt that the cable could be classed as Cat7. I bought one of those cables (not the exact one, but the same format and "Cat7" specs) and it always drops to 100Mbps.
Real Cat7 has a proprietary connector.
Proper Cat6 (and even Cat5e) supports Gb connection. Cat7 is a proprietary-standard-gimmick and has been already superseded.
Cat6 for anything <10Gbps (real Cat6 can support up to 10Gbps in shorter runs, which often would be ok for domestic settings).
DAC or FO for anything 10Gbps+. I didn't like much ethernet for 10Gbps due to the historically higher power consumption, but maybe new NICs are better.
On the NAS, with a common consumer NAS NIC you're likely limited to 1Gbps anyway.
Depends on the lengths of your cable runs and some other factors. But no, Cat 6 should be enough. If it isn't Cat6A is the better upgrade, not Cat7 (see above comment).
These don't appear to be Cat 7 cable. They have the usual 8P8C connector, where as Cat 7 should be terminated with either GG45 or TERA.
Cat 6A was ratified for Ethernet to allow 10 Gbit/s while still using the traditional 8P8C connector.
So today arrived my "3m Flat Cat7 Ethernet Cable" but inside the package was a Samsung S23 case
Not quite what i was hoping for but getting something that is 15x the value is an interesting day
Spare a thought for the guy who now has to wrap some ethernet cable around his phone & use that as his case.
The USB-C cable links are the same listing?