For Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE ... yet not many have the test equipment lying around to validate that a ‘Cat-6A’ cable isn’t secretly a barely-Cat-5-cable with CCA conductors.
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 ...