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

submitted 2 years 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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[-] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 23 points 2 years ago

Your connection is 40MB/s I assume

5e is capable of getting the full 1Gbps of my connection so I easily see over 90MB/s. That being said I bought a big 100m bulk years ago and have been clipping it myself with care.

If you were indeed using leftover/ free cables of cuestionable quality it indeed could be a reason for poor perfomance

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