I currently have a Cat6a, Would I see any increase in my internet speed if I got a cat 7 or 8? I’ve heard Cat 7 or 8 are mostly for office use rather than home use, but If I would see any increase in speed I still want to get one.
My Home internet speed is 100mbs, so I know in terms of that even a Cat6 is overkill, but I was just wondering if any other factors like MHz or interference shielding in Cat 7 or 8 would make a noticable difference.
Unless you live in an extremely electrically noisy environment, you’ll see no difference at all aside from your wallet, the same as you’re presently experience in difference between Cat6 and Cat5 (which can still be used for household gigabit networking without issue). By “extremely electrically noisy” I’m referring to living inside an active power substation built to pre-transistor standards.
Though I guess if you were also trying to position your router half a mile away or more it may make a bit of a difference.
No. You want Cat6 or 5e. Cat 7 or 8 is for 1000+/mbs. There will be no difference whatsoever by stepping up to cat 7. The best thing you could do is buy a really high quality Cat6 cable that’s gold plated
I have cat 7 but Im at Im at 1500/mbs
Only if your Cat6a is limiting your download speeds, which most people’s private downloads speeds nowadays are still well below cat6 and cat5’s true capacity. Unless your potential download speeds are above 1000mb/s, upgrading won’t bump up your speed one bit. A good way to think about it is that the cable is just the channel, and not the source.
If you’re that desperate to fight interference you can just get fibre. Gear is more affordable now relatively speaking.
If you want to improve your WoW performance than you have to physically move.
Cat 6 is fine. I’d use it over 5e but you prob wouldn’t notice any difference anyways unless you are using it at some super long length.
Unless you are doing something particular, cat5e is totally fine for a home network.
Cat 5e can handle up to 1gigabit aka 1000Mbps. Cat 6 is rated for up to 10Gigabit or 10,000Mbps. In a normal house environment you won’t need anything more than Cat 6 especially for internet usage unless you’re building a network to do some kind of service hosting from within your home.
Gigabit internet can work using Cat 5e and will definitely work using Cat 6.