Ethernet what type i should get?

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You could look at powerline network device they are not as good as ethernet but tend to be better than wireless for games.

Most times you can hide the cable by running it along the base board generally there is a very small gap between the carpet and the bottom of the base board. You will likely need a longer cable but you can go 100 meters. They also make flat cable protectors for cable that is run over the top of the floor, they keep you from tripping on it. They are sold in office supply type of stores since people run the power cables in them at times also.
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CAT 5e is perfectly fine. CAT 6 is really more of a premium, not really worth it unless you don't care about the price difference or you're doing something like permanently wiring a house or business. They both handle 1Gbps, though CAT 6 can go up to 10Gbps but only commercial grade equipment handles that load level right now so its a total waste for the consumer.
 
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Games use almost no bandwidth you likely could use older cat3 cable and run at 10m. Pretty much cat5e will be good enough for almost all applications.....but sometime you can get cat6 cheaper for whatever reason. Do not buy shielded cable though. It takes a very special installation procedure and if you install it wrong it can actually increase the interference. It is only used when you have tested and know you have external interference. It is extremely rare to need shielded cable. One place it is commonly used in airplanes not to protect the ethernet signals but to prevent the ethernet from interfering with other systems.
 
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shielded cables greatly reduce interference and retransmits.
especially useful with VoIP, you can really tell the difference in voice quality.

I highly recommend shielded cables, even for home users and gamers.
 
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If you really did this please explain how much money you spent to put in the isolated ground that is required to make this cable really work.

We have every cable test that we put in and this is in commercial building that have a much higher chance of interference. We have never needed shielded cable.
 
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enterprise grade switch ports are grounded, as well as your NIC ports. we usually run them between the VoIP phone and the computer NIC (which is grounded) so all you need to make it work is the cable, which costs more, but customers are happy to pay extra for the call clarity.

 
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They are not grounded they are intentionally isolated to prevent ground loops. Your nic is also not grounded. This is a safety concern. It take a very special installation to run shielded cable correctly. The ground must be isolated from the power ground. The equipment that can use shield cable is very rare and has special grounding tabs on the sides of the jack.

The company I work for has many tens of thousands of lan ports on many switches and we run no shielded cable and run almost exclusively VoIP lately. We monitor every port constantly and I see the reports from all the devices in all the countries in north and south america. In general we see zero errors on ports.

Improperly install shielded cable has the potential to actually increase the interference because it acts as a antenna.

If it makes you happy to think it sounds better that is good but I bet if you scientifically test it you will see you get no benefit especially on very short cables.
 
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well, we have resolved several clients' voice quality issues (static and choppiness) by simply replacing the regular cat5 in their offices with shielded. I admit my evidence is 100% anecdotal. thats all i have to say.

P.S. all network and computer equipment with a grounded power plug has grounded chassis / case. so NIC ports make contact with the bracket, bracket makes contact with case, case is grounded. switch ports with metal around them are grounded.
 
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You need to read the specifications for ethernet ports. It is explicitly not allowed to have the ethernet ports connected to the power ground. This is a partially a electrical code requirement. You really need to go read about the issue ground loops cause both from a safety as well as communication standpoint. This is a major issue even for the grounding of server racks.

This is the key reason shielded cable is not recommended unless you absolutely need it because of the difficulty of getting this install correctly.

In most cases you are not running shielded cable to the end devices anyway. You use normal patch cable for this short distance because the odds of getting interference is almost zero. It is on the longer runs between data centers or IDF and the end user jacks you do this. It is much easier to ground these patch panels correctly.

Recommendation based on anecdotal evidence is the problem. I could say sticking sharp sticks in my eyes makes my network run faster so you should do it too.

Now if you were talking analog voice or maybe T1 circuits I could see, the phone guys use lots of shielded cable and I have little direct knowledge of why but I defer to their expertise.

 
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It costs lots more to get shielded cable. Many times they say STP or UTP for shielded or unshielded.

Just read the specifications they will tell. You do not want to buy cable that does not tell things like this you can end up with CCA (copper clad aluminum) which is not certified for ethernet and causes strange issues at times. Most vendors clearly state that their cable is pure copper cable in the specs.
 
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1. It says on the package.

2. It should be STAMPED on the cable itself. STP=Shielded Twisted Pair, UTP=UNshielded Twisted Pair.

3. A shielded cable tend to be stiffer.
 
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There's a problem, My pc is in my bedroom and the modem is in my living room the problem is here the cable need to cross the room to get to my living room and everyone will step on it and fall and i dont want to make it cross the wall from the top because it will be awful to look at it is there any way ? I can pug it and hide it without anyone noticing i am using wifi nownto my pc which is horrible :/ with online gaming.
 
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Get a longer cable and either:
- Drill a few holes to hide the cables (from living room to bedroom)
- Plug the cable into the corners on top of the rooms

The difference between CAT5 cable and a CAT5e is the difference in distance to uphold its max speed.
In other words if the distance is more than 10meters between modem and your PC, the speed will begin to drop (not significantly).

The CAT5e will uphold its max speed till 100meters.

I always suggest CAT5e as its backwards compatible and lives up to most applications.
CAT6 and higher is overkill as there aren't any applciations for Home Users utilizing their speeds.

Those are mostly used in WAN's you cannot see and specific LAN's between end-devices (servers for example)
 
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You could look at powerline network device they are not as good as ethernet but tend to be better than wireless for games.

Most times you can hide the cable by running it along the base board generally there is a very small gap between the carpet and the bottom of the base board. You will likely need a longer cable but you can go 100 meters. They also make flat cable protectors for cable that is run over the top of the floor, they keep you from tripping on it. They are sold in office supply type of stores since people run the power cables in them at times also.
 
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No way to tell since there are no specs for the cable. If you look at the cable it should say tia/eia 568. This in general means the company that makes it paid to be certified but there is fake china cable on the market that has fraudulent markings. The good thing is best buy is good about standing behind their product if it does not work.
 
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