FASTER Ethernet - 2.5 & 5Gb Ethernet Standard

In my excitement to talk about new technology, I forgot to talk about the 2.5 and 5gb standards! Let's chat a minute about that and then in the next video we'll do some testing!

00:00 - Intro
00:21 - New tech is exciting!
01:39 - What's the standard?
03:25 - Why should we pay attention to this?
04:27 - Speed limits
07:02 - Off to a slow start
07:59 - Cost of replacing cable
10:37 - What cable lengths do you want to see?
11:40 - Video Support


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[rogerhassell]

My house was built in 1994, and was wired with Cat3 for phone extensions throughout the house. I re-purposed the wiring for ethernet after I moved in around 2000, and augmented it with additional runs of Cat5e where I could, without tearing out walls and such. I am able to achieve Gigabit speeds on some short Cat3 runs already. I'd be interested in seeing what speeds a 50 ft and 100 ft run of Cat3 would support.

[robww]

Love idea of this video. Throwing it out there. What about starting at link aggregation? Synology has gone down this route....what speeds would link aggregation get at 2.5 and 5?

[Bill_]

Can you include the impact of multiple connectors in your testing, i.e. through a patch panel? Thanks!

[ARyan-lndb]

50 ft and 100 ft cat5e vs cat6 would be great. Then I’d know how much of the house I need to rewire.

[javiercamacho]

Absolutely, it will be an Interesting experiment. I have a client where all building was pre-wired as voice wire (Cat5) and data wire (Cat5e). The client accepted to take the risk (low budget), so we installed 1xUSW-Pro-48-PoE. We only connected 10xCisco SPA303 (no PoE) and 1xCisco SPA514G (PoE) on those voice wires, and it work well, but I have noticed something interesting on the USWP, but I am not 100% sure how to interpret "Experience 90%" on "LAN" connection for only 2 ports (2 x SPA303), and I don't have yet the correct pro equipment to check wire quality.

[robww]

Thinking more about this. Would be great to see at the end, your prediction of what most in home and office networks will look like
In say 5 years. Not all devices need faster speeds. So guessing networks will become more and more split between faster 2.5 and 5 devices and then traditional devices. Which products will evolve to take Wi-Fi 6 or faster networks....laptops..TVs... NAS etc

[blief]

Hi, Willie, I think using the maximum length of Cat5e (330 ft) would give a true comparison between 5e and 6

[haroldpepete]

My aourus xtreme motherboard to thread ripper third generation has two 10 gigas ethernet adapter and support wifi ax, this board is a monster

[philipcook]

It would be interesting to know how far what speed will go over cat5e. Maybe in 10m increments, or whatever you think is appropriate.

[gibbykaro]

Here's one, We do a lot of video matrixing over cat 6a and can get 18g. Now its compressed but Everything I have read that 6a can do a max speed of 18gig.

[ncrp]

How about comparing comparing Cat5e cables, one using 100% copper conductors and another using CCA (Copper Clad Aluminium)?

[kabloosh]

10 ft, 50 ft, 100 ft, 200 ft, 330 ft, 400 ft
I think all those lengths would cover the potential throughput of various sizes.

[Etheoma]

Oh this is 4 years old, was gonna say WiFi 6E we got WiFi 7 already, which is actually the exact reason why I'm looking at 5GbE, although I'm installing a completely, so would it cost terribly much more to go with a 10GbE switch which supports 1/2.5/5GbE speeds? Whats the power consumption difference etc, because I'm gonna be putting in CAT 8 anyway because as long as you're not having to rip out old cabling the cost difference isn't large so why not just put in the best even if you will likely never use it and yeh I know Cat 8 supports upto 40Gb which I will never need to every single device.

[cyberopal]

i'd like to se 300 ft cat 5 and cat 6 and cat 6a this would be great! Thanks for this interesting video.

[CraigMullins]

If you just have a standard modem/router/switch form your ISP like Comcast.... And it doesn't give you any stats about memory or CPU how can you find out if you need to upgrade your network?

[haroldpepete]

The relation between bit and byte is 8 to 1

[w.quincybevans]

Test from Short 1M, Medium 50M & 100M cables Cat5; Cat5e; Cat6 & Cat7 but don't break the bank i have a mixture of Cat5e&6 in my installation

[fbifido]

Why 2.5Gb & 5Gb ?
What, they don't want people home/work to move up to 10Gb or 40Gb ?
or do they only want Datacenter to have those speed, or is it because they want new money {removed: new money music video link}

[OLDMANDOM.Dominic]

Cable lengths, for real world, 10, 20 & 30 ft long.