On 01/08/2015 19:09, Java Jive wrote:
There is a difference in cables that can carry Gigabit Ethernet
(10/100/1000Mbps) as opposed to just Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) in
that IIRC Gigabit Ethernet requires an extra twisted pair. Thus you
find that if you use a Fast Ethernet cable to connect two Gigabit
ports, the connection will only be Fast Ethernet.

As far as any other hype is concerned, ethernet connections either
work or they don't,

Well, as I say, the test report suggests that certain (cheap) cables
don't work very well. Not a 'fault', just poor materials and sloppy
manufacturing.

I recently wired up my home with cat6. Nothing too fancy, just a feed to
each living room. A lesson learned for next time is to use trunking, but
also to pay a bit more attention to the quality and source of cable.

though it should be remembered that if a faulty
connection causes a high error rate, then a proportion of the data
sent across it will be corrupted and will have to be resent, and
therefore the net data rate across the connection will be reduced.

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 10:31:43 +0100, RJH wrote:

A vaguely interesting point is made in the test report however,
referring to cheap ethernet cable not meeting LAN spec. Quite what that
means in practice, I'm not sure.


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Cheers, Rob