Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “THESE Ethernet Cables Are a Scam”.
Did you know that buying the fastest highest performance, ethernet cables on the market is probably a bad idea? The cables I’m talking about are category 8 or just cat 8. For short, it’s quite easy to buy them online, but you’ll typically pay a premium for it compared to more common cat 5e and Cat 6 cables. But that’s fine because, according to Amazon listings, these cables are great for gaming and streaming right yeah. You really should take pause before dropping extra money on cat 8, just because it’s the newest fastest thing out there. The most obvious reason is simply because there isn’t really a point to cat 8 for most home users.
Cat 8 tops out at 40 gbits per second, which is seriously impressive, all other things being equal. That’S fast enough to download a 50 GB steam game in just 10 seconds, but the fastest home internet connection in the US right now is only 8 gbits and average speeds are far lower than that. You’Ll also need equipment at home home that can actually take advantage of those higher speeds. Many computers still only come with 1 gbit ethernet ports, and, although you can certainly buy ethernet adapters, that support higher speeds, you’ll pay more and more money.
The higher up the ladder you go, a 40 gbit network card can set you back many hundreds of dollars and models that are available now, don’t even support cat 8 ethernet cables. They instead use a different connector called qsfp plus, which is typically used with fiber optic or twin axial cables. There are adapters you can use, but none of them seem to support the full 40 gig speed over a standard, ethernet connection and unless you’re often moving huge amounts of data around your internal home network you’re, never even going to get close to using all that bandwidth. However, there’s another really important reason: you might not want to splurge on cat 8 and we’ll tell you what that is right after we thank the sponsor of this video delete me.
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That is correctly attaching a connector, so you can actually plug them into something is significantly more difficult than with a more run-of-the-mill ethernet cable. This is obviously an issue for people buying bulk, cable and terminating the cables themselves, but it’s also an issue for folks who are just buying plug-and-play cat 8 cables online. A good number of quote cat 8 cables being marketed towards consumers for relatively low prices are simply not being built to the actual category 8 specification, meaning that problems people are reporting from trying to use them at home are likely the result of fake cat 8 cables. Whether it’s because they just aren’t being constructed well due to either bad termination or some other manufacturing issue, or because they’re straight up, mislabeled on purpose as part of a scam. So what kind of cable should you be buying, depending on how fast you need your connection to be, and how long a cable run you need? You should be buying either cat 5e, 6 or 6A. Just have a look at this chart for details.
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