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I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

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[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

CAT8 40MB/s

I think you went a but overkill with that one, high quality CAT6 cables would have done the same job, but hey, if it works, it works.

[-] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 5 points 1 month ago

Atleast it's future proof

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The future of ethernet is not expensive cabling, more like switches capable of doing more on current cables. We've been seeing this trend for a while.

[-] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 3 points 1 month ago

I know, I was just tryna point out the silver lining

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