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

submitted 3 months 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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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

You've been using cheap cables.

Next step up is a JCAT: https://audiobacon.net/2019/11/02/the-jcat-signature-lan-a-1000-ethernet-cable/amp/

/s if not obvious.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

Someone took Monster's "$100 gold plated HDMI" cable and one-upped it.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 3 months ago

That review started off promising, but then the guy starts selling it. Boo.

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