<p>I'd got Cat6. Cat5e should do as long as you crimp all 4 pairs for GigE. </p>
<p>Do you still have your powerline kit? What'd you get? I'm looking at trying it out. Can't wire my rental. :(</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 30, 2012 2:14 PM, "Dan Kegel" <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I finally used up my old spool of cat5 (loaning it to<br>
friends, wiring up my garage, etc.), and<br>
I need to wire up some network outlets in my new house<br>
(powerline networking #fail). So time to buy a new<br>
spool.<br>
<br>
That brings up a few questions:<br>
<br>
1) cat5e, or cat6? cat5e should be sufficient for gigabit.<br>
<br>
2) Copper, or copper-clad-aluminum? Aluminum would probably be<br>
annoyingly stiff.<br>
<br>
3) Where to get it? (My local electronics store, the one on Olympic<br>
in Koreatown,<br>
no longer does retail. Fry's says they have cat5e for $110 for a 1000' roll,<br>
but don't say whether it's copper.)<br>
<br>
4) What's a fair price?<br>
<br>
It looks like copper cat5e goes for something like $90 including<br>
shipping on Amazon Prime, e.g.<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Cable-Copper-Ethernet-Network/dp/B002D0DK8E/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Cable-Copper-Ethernet-Network/dp/B002D0DK8E/</a><br>
though you can get copper-clad aluminum cat5e for about half that.<br>
</blockquote></div>