Cat5 may still be an option, but Cat6 is faster, safer, and more durable Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, ...

Back in February, we ran a piece discussing a hyper-expensive “audiophile-grade” Ethernet cable, the Audioquest Diamond. An 8-meter version of the Audioquest Diamond costs about $4,500, and a 12-meter ...

The RFA-4218-20 cable tester checks CAT5 and 5E cables for conditions such as shorts, opens, reversed pairs, and crossed pairs. It handles both straight and crossover cables for UTP, STP, 10/10-MHz ...

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. In ...

I have this one machine that is running on a cable I crimped myself and it perpetually has network issues. <BR><BR>It runs fine for a while and then starts to have network flakiness and then I end up ...

Plugged into Fluke Networks' DTX cable analyzer, thesepatch-cord test adapters certify both shielded and unshielded Category 5e, 6,and 6a cable assemblies to ANSI/TIA 568-C and ISO 11801:2010 ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...