Our CAT5e cable is of the highest quality and comes with a 25 year warranty. If you’re looking for a cable that won’t let your installation down in years to come, VueNet is the brand for you. The standard assembly for basic Cat5 cable is often U/UTP, while many high-quality Cat5e Ethernet cables are manufactured with at least some form of additional shielding built-in. This shielding helps to protect the carried signal from several forms of interference, minimising the risk of data corruption or network connection loss.

Cat5 cable is designed to carry data over a wired network connection at speeds of 10 Mbps (Ethernet) or 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet). You will often see this written as 10/100 Ethernet when shopping for Cat5 cable online. This means that if your local network or incoming internet connection runs at between 10-100 Mbps (also known as a 100BASE-T network), Cat5 Ethernet cable should be able to handle the required data throughput at full speed, with no loss or delay. At first glance, you cannot necessarily tell whether a given length of Ethernet cable is stranded or solid without cutting through it to find out. However, stranded cable is usually a lot more flexible than solid core cable. Solid cables will often retain some degree of deflection for a while after being bent at a sharp angle. Cat5e Cable Diagram What are the differences between PVC, riser and plenum-rated cables?". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. [ self-published source] However, there are valid use cases for choosing longer runs of Cat5e wiring, in which case you can easily buy reels in lengths of 1000ft or more. Common pre-cut lengths you will see on sale at UK suppliers include 30cm/300mm, 50cm/500mm, 1m, 2m, 3m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 100m, 152m, and 305m.HDBaseT Alliance (January 9, 2013). "HDBaseT Alliance Shows the Future of Connected Home Entertainment at CES 2013" . Retrieved 2017-10-31. Cooney, Michael (2016-09-27). "IEEE sets new Ethernet standard that brings 5X the speed without disruptive cable changes". Network World . Retrieved 2021-01-19. U/FTP (Unshielded/Foil Twisted Pair): The individual twisted pairs each have their layer of additional foil shielding around them, but the cable only has the basic outer sheathing RJ45/RJ11 Network Cable Splitters for Ethernet and Phone Line Sharing". carry one old fashioned analog telephone signal and one 10/100Mbps Ethernet signal by the same single network cable. IEEE Std 802.3-2008" (Document). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2008. Table 13-1.

Compared to the CAT5 and CAT5e ethernet cables, the CAT6 cable offers dramatically higher speeds and a more stable, uninterrupted connection.

A Cat5e dual-port wall-mount assembly showing the two wiring schemes: A for T568A, B for T568B Category5 patch cable in T568B wiring Cat5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video. [17] In some cases, multiple signals can be carried on a single cable; Cat5 can carry two conventional telephone lines as well as 100BASE-TX in a single cable. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] The USOC/RJ-61 wiring standard may be used in multi-line telephone connections. Various schemes exist for transporting both analog and digital video over the cable. HDBaseT (10.2 Gbit/s) is one such scheme. [23] Characteristics [ edit ]

The distance per twist is commonly referred to as pitch. Each of the four pairs in a Cat5 cable has differing pitch to minimize crosstalk between the pairs. The pitch of the twisted pairs is not specified in the standard. See to the right for a Cat5e cable diagram, showing the basic construction of different types of Cat5e Ethernet cables. ATS 10/100 Base T Splitter Adapters". Duxcw.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-07 . Retrieved 2014-08-17. Ethernet Cable Identification and Use". Donutey. Archived from the original on 2011-07-10 . Retrieved 2011-04-01. Cable types, connector types and cabling topologies are defined by ANSI/TIA-568. Category5 cable is nearly always terminated with 8P8C modular connectors (often referred to incorrectly as RJ45 connectors [14] [15] [16]). The cable is terminated in either the T568A scheme or the T568B scheme. The two schemes work equally well and may be mixed in an installation so long as the same scheme is used on both ends of each cable.Cat5 Spec, cat6 specs, cat7 spec - Definitions, Comparison, Specifications". TEC Datawire. Archived from the original on 2013-07-19 . Retrieved 2013-01-05. UTP technology" (PDF). Extron Electronics. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-11 . Retrieved 2013-05-12. Smith, Ryan. "At Last, a 2.5Gbps Consumer Network Switch: QNAP Releases QSW-1105-5T 5-Port Switch". www.anandtech.com . Retrieved 2021-01-19. It has been suggested that this section should be split into a new article titled Twisted pair, because Applies not only Cat 5, but to all communication cabling. ( discuss) ( June 2023)