I’m not about to pull the stuff in walls… if I did. I’d jump up to running fiber.
Its just the patch cables that I use.
Its more about having a single type of cable in my network.
Also most of my CAT 6 cables are getting old.
Like near a decade.
Also same for the USB-C cables. Slowly replacing the cables w the USB-C 4 or better. This way I don’t accidentally grab a 480MB cable instead of a 10GB or better cable.
Okay, that’s a valid point.
I also have a CAT 6a cable that goes from the router to my LG Oled.
That’s perfectly adequate for software updates. I don’t use anything else. Everything runs via the latest generation Apple TV 4K with an RJ45 socket. Of course, a CAT 8 is also installed there, although a CAT 5 cable would be perfectly adequate.
But that’s just how I am, I wanted all the same cables.
Only one way.
Those are called (at best) Cat6a cables.
Cat8 cables one can use with domestic equipment at least exist. Unless one is trying to run a 40Gb network they make no sense whatsoever at home and are a pain to use.
But at least if it is a real Cat8 cable you can tell it from 6a just by touch right away.
Boris I suggest you reread what I wrote and what I was explaining to Bonte.
I was explaining how and why the CAT 7 cable w the RJ45 came to be even thought it shouldn’t exist.
Same for some of the wi-fi offerings when the market jumps the gun before specs have been finalized and ratified.
No, that’s how some less scrupulous vendors came up with a way to sell the same cable for a bit more money, because the general public can not be expected to closely follow standards bodies but does believe that “7” is better than “6”.
Or sometimes even after., although vendors usually leave a bit more wiggle room for themselves there – it appears that pretty much all consumer WiFi 7 devices aren’t WiFI 7 Certified (or something like that, don’t remember exact wording right now) which is the real existing standard and don’t do any of the WiFi 7 goodies…
Boris you have no clue.
This is why discussing anything w you is a waste of time.
End of conversation.
Yeah Boris, you’re back…
I missed you yesterday at my one-year birthday party 
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The 3400 is now one year old and it thanks me every day by working as it should.
Built in the fifth calendar week and received yesterday a year ago.
You can keep repeating that, it it makes you happy – you quite obviously have a deep-seated need to prove to everyone that you are an F500 executive. And a highly-paid consultant. And a networking engineer. And n experienced developer, of course!
This is clearly connected to the deep trauma you have received at ASR where oyu were hoping to teach those heathens THE TRUTH but were quickly laughed out of town for not knowing the difference between inductance and capacitance (as you have demonstrated here once).
The forum is not your shrink’s office. If you need to prove something to someone, go beat up some kindergartners or something.
While, unlike some people who put the list of their audiophile power cables in their user profiles, you occasionally do post something accurate, every time you try talking about technical issues you just show that you don’t even know what you don’t know. You’re like a textbook example of Dunning-Kruger.
