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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn't just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren't just taking a couple minutes to load?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, e. Just didn't bother with the variance. Though, could even be Cat6 for all I know, never looked.

Almost just said Cat but figured that may confuse people. Our engineers keeping the network purring like a kitty.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Probably should have just said "Ethernet"

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That's another thing entirely. I don't know if alive people can even use it.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well if they're only getting 10Mbps over Cat5 then the cable's busted, since normally they're rated for 2.5GbE.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope, Cat5 was nominally rated for 100 MHz, but was superseded by Cat5e for greater reliability at such speeds

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

The Category 5e specification improves upon the Category 5 specification by further mitigating crosstalk. The bandwidth (100 MHz) and physical construction are the same between the two, and most Cat 5 cables actually happen to meet Cat 5e specifications even though they are not certified as such.

I did kinda mean it as a joke originally, but yeah 5/5e are the same outside of crosstalk resistance.