Cat6 cable wiring diagram??

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Has anyone seen/have a cat6 cable wiring diagrams somewhere. Any links is
great. There's plenty of CAT5, but not Cat6.. Thanks.
 
Cat 6 cabling is the same thing as Cat 5. The only difference is that the
testing criteria are higher for Cat 6.


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Thanks Matthew, but then why if I used Cat5 (Not Cat5 enhanced) cable to
connect a Gigabit NIC to a Gigabit Swith port I cannot get Gigabit speed but
only 10/100MB speed. The Manufacturer told me that I must use Cat5e or Cat6
cable to get gigabit speed.
 
Has to do with the twists per foot, cable construction, etc. Nothing to do
with the cable pinout.

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| Thanks Matthew, but then why if I used Cat5 (Not Cat5 enhanced) cable to
| connect a Gigabit NIC to a Gigabit Swith port I cannot get Gigabit speed
but
| only 10/100MB speed. The Manufacturer told me that I must use Cat5e or
Cat6
| cable to get gigabit speed.
 
Because the cable is different NOT the wiring.

Thanks Matthew, but then why if I used Cat5 (Not Cat5 enhanced) cable to
connect a Gigabit NIC to a Gigabit Swith port I cannot get Gigabit speed but
only 10/100MB speed. The Manufacturer told me that I must use Cat5e or Cat6
cable to get gigabit speed.
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Does this mean that if we wanted to change the NIC's in our servers to
Gigabit we would have to we wire the Cat cables from the servers to the
switches?

Thanks

Chris
 
Thanks Matthew, but then why if I used Cat5 (Not Cat5 enhanced) cable to
connect a Gigabit NIC to a Gigabit Swith port I cannot get Gigabit speed but
only 10/100MB speed. The Manufacturer told me that I must use Cat5e or Cat6
cable to get gigabit speed.
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Dumb question time: Why are you asking if the manufacturer told you
to use Cat5e or better cable?

There's no difference in the pinout, it's the cable's capabilities.
Get CAT5e or CAT6 patch cables and your issue will go away.

Jeff
 
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