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I have recently bought a house and am getting the loft converted so I can work in there. There is currently no network cabling to the loft so I'm getting that taken care as part of the loft work.
In order to future proof my potential network what kind of cable should I be looking at for cabling that will support 2.5GB speeds? My new PC will have a motherboard with a 2.5GB NIC and I will probably build a NAS in the near future with a 2.5GB NIC too so I want to make sure the network cabling I get will support 2.5GB speeds.
Is Cat5e OK or should I go for Cat6a? The house is a small 1 bedroom place and I don't think the distance from the living room, where the broadband router will be situated, to the loft is more than 7-8 meters so I was thinking of getting a 100m roll of Cat6a U/FTP cable made by Connectix and get 3-4 ports up in the loft for future expansion such as placing a NAS there etc plus a Wifi point.
In order to future proof my potential network what kind of cable should I be looking at for cabling that will support 2.5GB speeds? My new PC will have a motherboard with a 2.5GB NIC and I will probably build a NAS in the near future with a 2.5GB NIC too so I want to make sure the network cabling I get will support 2.5GB speeds.
Is Cat5e OK or should I go for Cat6a? The house is a small 1 bedroom place and I don't think the distance from the living room, where the broadband router will be situated, to the loft is more than 7-8 meters so I was thinking of getting a 100m roll of Cat6a U/FTP cable made by Connectix and get 3-4 ports up in the loft for future expansion such as placing a NAS there etc plus a Wifi point.