Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling ... Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 one between a network port and computer is easy ...

More surprising, many of them didn’t even pass the Cat 5e specification. [Blue Jeans Cable] asserts that this is possible because the Ethernet cable specification is policed via the honor ...

Ethernet wiring today starts at Cat5e. Cat8 is for short distances in datacenters. See twisted pair. Cat Type of Bandwidth Data # Cable (MHz) Rate 8 ScTP/STP ... 100 MHz 1 Gbps 5 UTP/ScTP/STP ...