[SGVLUG] Buying a spool of ethernet wire - cat5e or cat6? Copper or aluminum? Where? How much?

[Dan Buthusiem]

I'd got Cat6. Cat5e should do as long as you crimp all 4 pairs for GigE.

Do you still have your powerline kit? What'd you get? I'm looking at trying
it out. Can't wire my rental. :(
On Jul 30, 2012 2:14 PM, "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> I finally used up my old spool of cat5 (loaning it to
> friends, wiring up my garage, etc.), and
> I need to wire up some network outlets in my new house
> (powerline networking #fail).  So time to buy a new
> spool.
>
> That brings up a few questions:
>
> 1) cat5e, or cat6?  cat5e should be sufficient for gigabit.
>
> 2) Copper, or copper-clad-aluminum?  Aluminum would probably be
> annoyingly stiff.
>
> 3) Where to get it?  (My local electronics store, the one on Olympic
> in Koreatown,
> no longer does retail.  Fry's says they have cat5e for $110 for a 1000'
> roll,
> but don't say whether it's copper.)
>
> 4) What's a fair price?
>
> It looks like copper cat5e goes for something like $90 including
> shipping on Amazon Prime, e.g.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Cable-Copper-Ethernet-Network/dp/B002D0DK8E/
> though you can get copper-clad aluminum cat5e for about half that.
>
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