Not all Cat6 cabling is created equal, and running it in your home could have consequences ...

Though we’ve never used their cables, [Blue Jeans Cable] out of Seattle, WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they ...

Don't pick up a fake cable.

We were recently perusing facebook and came across an article written and shared by our friends over at Blue Jeans Cable, entitled, “Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog?”. We were pretty shocked to discover ...

While Cat5e and Cat6 cables look exactly the same from the outside, it is what’s inside that makes the difference. Selecting the best solution for a network system can seem like a daunting task. It is ...

Hey, I'm planning on wiring up my house with Ethernet in the near future, and I was able to get some Cat5E remnants from my employer. I'm thinking this should be good enough to wire up the house with, ...

I was looking at this page for some bulk cat5e... I knew there was cat5 and cat5e, but I thought all cat5e was supposed to work with gigabit ethernet... Why is some of it labled 100MHz and some of it ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...

There is a special type of Category 5, or Cat 5, cable that can be used to connect two computers without the use of a router or switch. These cables are known as crossover cables and they have ...

Despite faster and more capable Wi-Fi technologies, there's still no substitute for the stability, range, and in many cases, performance, of an Ethernet connection. If you have a compatible router and ...