![]() Capable of moving up to 1Gbps over 330 feet, or 10Gbps for about half that, Cat 6A upgraded the spec to 500MHz for 330 feet of 1Gbps throughput. Category 6 runs at up to 250MHz and sometimes used shielding around the bundle of data-carrying wires to reduce interference. Soon after, Cat 5e cable emerged with the ability to speed data with 1Gbps throughput.Ĭategory 6 cable appeared at the start of the 21st century and remains popular with home networkers. It could reliably convey 100Mbps of data at a frequency of 100MHz over 330 feet. The year 1995 brought not only Microsoft's Windows 95 but Category 5 cable as well. By contrast, Category 4 cable pushed this to 20Mhz and roughly 16Mbps but it was used for Token Ring – rather than Ethernet – networks. This standard gave way to Category 2 cabling, which carried 4Mbps with a 1MHz signal.įast-forward to the early 1990s and Category 3 cable, which is often called the first modern networking cable, boosted the cable's frequency to 16MHz and Ethernet performance to 10Mbps. Capable of carrying a 10KHz signal, Category 1 cable could deliver upward of 1Mbps of data for early networkers. Also called voice-grade cable, it was generally composed of insulated telephone wires twisted into pairs to reduce crosstalk and covered in a plastic jacket. Hair was bigger, shoulders were padded and early networkers were using either coaxial cable or what came to be called Category 1 cable. ![]() ![]() Set the Wayback Machine to the late 1980s. Data Evolution: The many types of Ethernet cable, and where they come from
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