Cat5 and Cat6 Ethernet cables are both popular options for wired networking, but there are some important differences between them and reasons why you're probably better off picking the newer Cat6 ...

WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they couldn’t just keep building the cables the way they used to.

Currently, CAT 8 represents the fastest Ethernet standard, but older versions like CAT 6, CAT 6A, and CAT 7 remain relevant since all of these cables are backward compatible. Today’s Ethernet ...