Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

Using the wrong Ethernet cables can throttle the speed from your ISP.

Ethernet cables are a simple way to improve the speed of data transfers. That’s largely why, as businesses continue to improve their networking solutions to support high-speed transfers, the global ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...

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 ...

Hey folks, I've been making my own cables for a long time now, but have had to hide them under stuff since I never owned my own home. Now that I do have a house, I want to run some cat6 throughout. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking to redo runs in a couple racks sitting in our server room (read: approximately 25-35 runs that are 14-20') and they keep coming in as the least insane from a price standpoint. Anyone ...