Ethernet Cable Bottleneck?

[oort_3]

Lets say I have a 1 Gbit plan, and the cable from the wall is 5e, and all cables are 5e. From what I understand, a Gigabit switch allows all devices to get 1Gbit connect to it but would it be bottlenecked by the 5e cable that only allows 1Gbit

Here is a picture
http://imgur.com/2rDZLUL

So if all devices were being used, would the speed be slowed down since the cat 5e cable connected to the wall is only able to give 1Gbit while there is a theoretical 5gbit being used?

 

[bill001g]

The cable is not the bottleneck the port from the ISP is. Lets say instead you had 10g ports to the wall but the ISP still only allowed 1g to go to the internet. So if you used cat6a cable your data would go from your switch to the wall port at 10g but then the ISP would artificially limit you to 1g.

If you attempted to use a cat5e cable in the 10g ports then the cable would actually limit you to 1g before the traffic goes to the wall.

It is mostly doesn't matter if it is the ISP, the port, or the cable that is causing the limit you still will get only 1g. It is one of those things you do not need to really worry about. It is almost impossible to use 1g of bandwidth unless you are doing stupid stuff like running torrents.

 

[photonboy]

Yep, it's pretty RARE to find a 1Gbps connection anyway.

Remember there's the ISP (internet) and local connection (between computers/devices in your house via wired or wireless).

My ISP connection is only 1.2MBps which handles Netflix just fine, but 1Gbps would be closer to 115MBps or roughly 100x faster than my INTERNET connection allows (for downloads, uploading is even slower).

*I do get up to about 90MBps talking to my Western Digital MYCLOUD which is a 4TB HDD (so I'm talking to it through the Ethernet cables and router).

Other: If you have a SWITCH any devices attached to it will talk through the switch and NOT go back to the router. For example, two computers attached to the same switch (which may have an ethernet cable going all the way back to the router. Copying a file from PC1 to PC2 in that case would just go out PC1 to the switch then out the switch again direct to PC2 and never go through the router.