cat7 transfer rate speed ?

[ori1984]

hi guys. i just finish build my new house and i wonder what cable to run for the internet.
i have 1 pc in the living room and 1 in the bedroom and i share files between them, file like movies and other big files like 8gb,the distance is about 10-15 meter, and I'm not only share i need to transfer it from one pc to anther sometimes so thats why i ask about cat7 transfer speed rate. will it be significant faster for transfer big files from the cat5/6 ?

 

[modernwar99]

It has a max transfer speed of 10Gbps, but most modern PC network cards are likely still limited to Cat5/6 speeds of 1Gbps, not to mention the hard drive read/write speed is even slower than that.

 

[bill001g]

The port in the equipment controls the speed not the cable. If you hook 1g equipment to cat7 cable it will still only run a 1g. Even at 1g speeds your computer hard drive or other parts may limit your overall throughput

Now lets say you were to buy expensive commercial equipment that really is designed to run at 10g and has 10g ports. At short distances (up to 55m) you can actually use normal cat6 cable. The next step up is cat6a which is certified to run 10g at 100meter. Cat7 is normally only used were there is some form of interference.

The next question is how fast does it REALLY have to be. A 8gbyte files would take just over 1 minute to copy at 1gbit assuming the hard drivers on both ends did not bottleneck it.

To go faster than 1g your costs will not be the network it will the computer on both ends.

 

[Kewlx25]

10Gb equipment will become cheap in the near future. Unless they get better noise cancellation, spending several thousands dollars tearing up your walls is going to suck. Do it once, do it right. That being said, you need to be careful about which cables your purchase. I have been corrected and some Cat5E cables have better specs than most CAT6 cables. It's not that CAT5E is a better spec, it's that a lot of companies make over-speced cables.