Upgrade from Cat 5a to Cat 6 to Cat 7.
Upgrade from Cat 5a to Cat 6 to Cat 7.
Hi, I have pure fiber ISP Mdm with 2.5Gbps package, which is in the basement and has a 10Gib port and we have cat 5a running inside our townhouse to every floor(im on 2nd floor). I have a [Asus AC5300](https://www.amazon.ca/Streaming-Quad-Cor...B071DPCKQ6) and i need better speeds as cheap as possible im getting 1.6 gbps on ethernet from wall and a 1000 using my router with a cat 6 cable. Today I bought a cat 6 cable to run inside the room to the wall jack and I also bought Cat 7 cable to connect router to my gaming laptop. Could i have done better? I can still return the items. Please help
For 2.5Gbps you can use Cat 5e or Cat 6. To reach 10Gbps you need Cat 6a cables. Cat 7 performs similarly to Cat 6a.
From the fiber ONT in the basement, you're connecting CAT5e to the routers' WAN port. It seems the WAN and LAN ports on that router are only Gigabit, so for speeds beyond gigabit you'd need 2.5GbE equipment. The cables aren't the main issue here; CAT5e can handle 2.5GbE up to 100 meters. It's not entirely clear how everything is arranged. Ideally, the router should be placed in a central area where all cables from the rooms meet, then connect them to the router's switch ports before sending the signal to the ISP's fiber ONT.