WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they couldn’t just keep building the cables the way they used to.

The extra 40 lines are all tied to ground. The cable was constructed from 10 pieces of Cat5e with one line from each twisted pair going to ground. The construction is as tedious as it sounds and ...

Cat5 may still be an option, but Cat6 is faster, safer, and more durable Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, ...

This is why various standards of cables are available, suitable for different requirements ranging from home use to high-speed data server applications. Category or “CAT” cables are ...

Types of cables In general, there are four major types of cable. First is coaxial cable, which, given the many decades of analogue systems, has hundreds of thousands of existing connections. The ...