What is the difference between a CAT5 cable and a CAT6 cable???
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The most obvious difference is their transfer capability. CAT5 has four pairs of twisted copper wire and supports up to 100m of Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) transfers. Although CAT5 has four twisted pairs, it only makes use of two pairs. CAT6 also has four pairs of twisted copper wire which supports Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps) of up to 100m. Unlike CAT5, CAT6 takes advantage of all four pairs. CAT6 has a 2x transfer rate compared to CAT5 but due to the higher price tag of CAT6, it isn't used alot yet.
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Depending on what type of media you use to connect them. Most of the time it is a cat 5e cable. In that case it would be serial and traval in analog waves(sine waves) until it hit the NIC which will turn it digital waves(square waves) for the computer.
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Close out any unneeded applications running on your computer.  Check all cabling to make sure its good.  Make sure you don't have old cabling in your home if your using cable internet.  RG-59 is old cabling, RG-6 is new cabling, its a little thicker and will allow better throughput of data.  Also try a different cs server.  Check your computer for any viruses or spyware. And stop any unneeded services if your running win2000 or XP.
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That's a pretty vague question.  I'll give a little of what I know.  The "Categories" of ethernet cables are standards that dictate a bunch of things about the construction and manufacturing of the bulk cable and connectors.  Generally speaking, you don't need Cat6 cable unless you are running a gigabit Ethernet connection.  I recommend you stick with Cat5e in all other situations, just cause it is cheaper.\n\nIf you are running the cable through a wall, I recommend you get solid center conductor cable instead of stranded.  Solid is easier to punch down on the patch panel.\n\nOnce you get to the patch panel, follow the color code for EIA/TIA 568 B wiring unless you know that the cable is wired to the A standard, which is kinda rare.  Punch the wires down firmly, using a 110 punch down tool.  If you are using a tool that has ratchet power, I recommend using the lowest setting so you don't accidentally damage the panel.\n\nI've attached a link to a tutorial that my company has on its web site.  Hopefully that will help you.
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dsl  is an ethernet connection. to upgrade it, you can call your dsl company and ask for more bandwidth., or switching to  the cable company  POSSIBLY could be faster, depending on how many other people on your block are using it.\n the difference between ethernet and usb is which plug you stick the cord into your computer. i would get the ethernet modem, that way it will be much easier to add a router later on if you want to. a router lets you plug more than one computer up to your dsl connection. b y the way 512kbps is pretty fast in my opinion. it's more than fast enough to stream video.
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You need a router like a cisco 7200\n\nAnd switches that accept fiber like the cisco 3550\n\nLoop the 3550's to keep your performance\n\nThe fiber will run from each 3550 that will pass along your LAN information, each 3550 has 48 copper RJ45 ports on them for your cat5 network.\n\nGranted this is a simplistic run down it gives you a baseline to work with.\n\nYou will need precise length for your fiber runs as those cables usually are professionally installed.\n\nGranted this is a simplistic overview, it gives you a run down on what it will look like.
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In this case two types.\n\n1.If you have HUb or Switch, use Stright cables,i.e CAT5or Cat 6 Ethernet cables, enable Netbiew protocal,go to mynetwork place,my nearest computer,then u can see the second computer.\n2.use crossover Ethernet Cable, connected pc to pc.\nenable Netbiew protocal.
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A crossover cable is an ethernet cable.  You have two variations of an ethernet cable (using the TIA 568B configuration, which is industry standard), straight and cross.  Straight would have White-Orange, Orange, White-Green, Blue, White-Blue, Green, White-Brown, Brown in that order from pin 1 to 8 (optionally, they use only four wires which would be the orange and green colors, in the same order on the same pins).  A crossed cable would be the same order as above on one side, and White-Green, Green, White-Orange, Blue, White-Blue, Orange, White-Brown, and Brown on the other end.\nStraight cables are usually used for connection of a PC or Printer to a switch.  Crossovers are usually used to connect one device to another.
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Ok, the Local Area Connection is for the Ethernet cable connection. (it's like a phone cord). You do not need this since you have a wireless connection. So you can right click on Local Area Connection and disable it if the little red X is bugging you. As far as the speed goes, you will not get 100mbps on a wireless connection. It will move up and down depending on how far away you are from the wireless router or access point. You only are using about 1mbps on your internet connection anyway so there is really no need to worry about that unless you are transfer large files back and forth from each of the computers in the home or office.
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There should have been more to the question than that, but here goes...\n\nThe transmission media is the thing or stuff used to transmit the communication signals for a computer.  Until recently, that would have been the cable plugged in to the back of the machine.  Based on how much data it can carry it has a category or cat rating; the higher the number the more it can carry.  CAT3 is commonly used for voice and CAT5e or CAT6 is typical for a data installation.\n\nThere are also older standards like 10Base-2 and 10Base-5 that you don’t see too much anymore.\n\nFor longer lengths of cable, fiber optic cables are used to carry pulses of light sometimes 10 kilometers between endpoints.\n\nThe answer gets a little more complicated when you think about wireless.  Is the transmission media air?  Is it the antennas in the card or in the access point?
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A Cat5 cable can only run both voice and data at the same time if the voice is Voice over IP (VOIP).  If you want the option to run just voice (eg. analog telephone) or just data then it doesn't matter if you use VOIP.
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I think you are referring to ethernet... this is a cat5 cable.\n\nYou will have a jack(hole) on the side or back of the laptop that looks like, but is a hair bigger than a phone chord.\n\nor right click on "my computer" go to properties and click on device manager. You will see all devices there along with any issues you may be having like drivers not being installed.
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there is no difference\nthe basic idea is that all are ethernet cables for ethernet cards\nsome ethernet cables are different \nbut what you looking for is a cable to get your computer conected to a router or a modem\nto be sure just check the way it looks like the entry for the ethernet card and you can figure out easily if that's what you need
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First the difference between a switch and a hub is kind of hard to explain over email postings so just know that a switch is much faster and more reliable then a hub. \n\nFirst go to each computer left click the "My Computer" icon then right click each drive you want to share. More then likely there is only one hard drive, which is called the C: drive by default. After you right click that drive go down 4 lines to were it says "Sharing and Security" and left click it. Then put the curser over the "Share this drive" and left click that one and then give it a name...whatever you would like. Don't worry about any of the other stuff. Click OK. If it works a picture of a hand will immediately appear under the picture of the drive almost like it is holding up the picture...you'll see what I mean. That is the first step and will make all the computers ready for file sharing and do this to all 3 computers. NEXT\n\nGet a CAT5 cable for each computer and plug it into the back of each PC. I assume there is a network card in each computer (almost ALL new computers come with one now that is built onto the motherboard) but the way you can tell is to look in the back and see if there is what looks like a telephone plug in. Don't be confused because a network plug in (called a RJ-45 connection) is bigger then one for a land line phone line. I will assume that you have one. The next thing is to figure out how long the distance is between the computers and the switch. With CAT5 cable the maximum distance is 300 meters or 320 feet. So as long as you are under that distance you will be fine. Plug all the cables into the computer.   NEXT\n\nHere is the problem… you only have one IP address from your ADSL modem. Either you have to have a router to share the connection (giving each computer a IP address) or setup Windows Internet sharing on one of the computers, which I can walk you through if you would like. This is THE ONLY WAY IT CAN BE DONE...unless your modem has a router built inside as most do now days...if you send me the make and model I will look it up for you!\n\nI am the system and network administrator for 4 major car dealership in charge of 75 computes and many different kinds of networks so I know what I am talking about. I would be more then happy to help out any more so let me know if there is anything else I can do….
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Use office grade equipment Ethernet cat 5, LAN, Gateway, Switch, Bridges etc
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I prefer using ethernet hub. Hardwire your computer to the isp means not having to worry about there being a bad signal in the room. So if you haven't already, buy an ethernet hub.
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If they both have Ethernet RJ-45 jacks (network cards installed) then all you have to do is get a pier-to-pier cable and plug them both in.  No other hardware is required. \n\nThis cable is special in that the transmit and receive wires are switched on one end, so what one computer transmits, the other one receives, and vice versa. \n\nPlug them in and run the network setup wizard - you'll be in business.