Originally Posted by
Shunter
In all fairness the quality of the cable will matter little in the average house. A few years ago in a building cabled with Cat 3 I replaced an old 3com 10meg/half switch with a Nortel 1000meg/full switch and the error count on ports with cable runs <30m was no higher than buildings with Cat 5e/6.
I'd be surprised if you could get Cat3 cable any more
I was merely pointing out that for futureproofing you don't need to go to Cat6 (with the associated expense), and that Cat5E for copper, or replacing the whole lot with fibre and just swapping out transceivers if necessary, would offer the best futureproofing and bang for your buck.
That Nortel switch would have been a BayStack?
(ex Nortel
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