<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for the excellent responses. As usual, I got my answer and some bonus info. Didn't know the cat spec is "end to end", included the termination points, and I had no idea you could run 10G Ethernet on twisted pair (wow). <br><br>This client is a non profit so they are no where close to using fancy test gear to spec out their runs. The vast majority of their backbone is cat5 and they're still using some of the cat 3 runs I did when I worked there in the late 90s. So even if these new runs are true cat6, I think the performance gains would be minimal. I suppose that bit of info would have made a lot of this discussion moot, but everyone made some excellent points and gave me some good info for future use. <br><br>Thanks again for the help :-)<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 10/4/09, Politik Durden <i><politikdurden@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Politik Durden <politikdurden@yahoo.com><br>Subject: cat 6 termination ?<br>To: ufo@ufo.chicago.il.us<br>Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 1:14 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1933944323"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">I'm installing cat 6 cable and the client is asking if they need to upgrade their patch panels to cat 6 ? I'm thinking that termination points (patch panels, jacks, etc) being advertised as cat 6 is just marketing. I'm thinking the cat 6 spec is all in the cable. Would there be any issues terminating cat 6 cable to cat 5 patch panels, jacks , etc ? Any performance gain with upgrading the termination
points to cat 6 ? <br><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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