# Cat 5e vs Cat 6

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 25, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cat-5e-vs-cat-6/7288 "2006-01-25T07:50:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cat-5e-vs-cat-6/7288/1 "2006-01-25T07:50:39Z")

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Crossovers specifically.

Worth it?

I mean, Cat 6 is essentially Cat5e with less distance limitation

better signal to noise ratio and yadda yadda

but it’s so much cheaper than these cisco cables that run between the switches…

your thoughts?

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**Author:** ![zwarbyt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zwarbyt/32/7623_2.png) [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cat-5e-vs-cat-6/7288/2 "2006-01-25T07:57:54Z")

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I worked for Anixter, a huge wire and cable distributor, and during testing cat 6 is amazingly better when coiled, or longer distance runs etc

if you doing short tight runs i’d say forget it, the loss is only 10-30% over cat 5 , but if you have to coil or loop wire, or have huge runs together that are long, it might be worth it…

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**Author:** ![wickedcivy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wickedcivy/32/7295_2.png) [@wickedcivy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/wickedcivy)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cat-5e-vs-cat-6/7288/3 "2006-01-25T10:52:50Z")

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all depends on what and where its being used

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**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cat-5e-vs-cat-6/7288/4 "2006-01-25T15:37:17Z")

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since when is cat 6 much more than cat 5e? prices when i get wiring done for cat 6 vs. cat 5e are almost always the same