a thousand curses on the people who built this house and then wired it with cat5
@theresnotime I can’t believe you’re attacking Jack who built the house, Josh who built the house and Cindy who built the house like this

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Not even Cat 5e?

That's just... twisted (pair).

Tangent: how is Cat 6 over 2 decades old now???!!!

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Should still be enough for 5Gbit and if you're lucky even 10Gbit from what I've been told. Still can't quite believe that things improved that drastically from when I started into the industry though...

(2.5G I can confirm, that worked over a few meters of shitty cat5 a few weeks ago when I tested it)

Edit: Wikipedia says 2.5G is the max for Cat5.
CAT6 can do 10GBASE-T over 55m
CAT6a over 100m

Some on reddit said Cat5 can do 10Gbit depending on factory tolerances as well.

@theresnotime My home came with conduits but no cables. They had put ropes in the conduits so it's easier to pull a cable through, but the ropes frayed in the few years since it was built and they were useless. I had to use a cable snake or whatever it's called to install cables.
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Thinking of my parents place with RJ45 that does t even work anymore.