Ars Technica

Wiring up my house -- is Cat5E good enough?

Hey, I'm planning on wiring up my house with Ethernet in the near future, and I was able to get some Cat5E remnants from my employer. I'm thinking this should be good enough to wire up the house with, ...
Audioholics

Myth vs Reality – Putting Cat5E-Based A/V Structured Wiring In Its Place

Sending audio, video and control signals over twisted pair cables have become common practice in the contemporary marketplace. There is a good reason for this. Twisted pair cables are cheap, ...
Ars Technica

Cat 5e male to female wiring

I'm trying to run cat5e to a POE WiFi access point in the ceiling. So on one end of the cat5e cable is a standard RJ45 wall jack (in the office), and on the other end is a male RJ45 connector poking ...
Machine Design

Untangling CAT Data Cables

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...