Cat 5 Cable Speed Distance. 100 meters for slower network speeds (up to 1,000 mbps) and higher network speeds over short distances. For gigabit ethernet, 55 meters max, with 33 meters in high crosstalk conditions.
The cat 5 cable superseded the cat 3 version and for a number of years it became the standard for ethernet. This is not recognised by the tia/eia. Using two cable pairs to signal over copper wire, cat5 is now largely archaic and isn’t widely used for ethernet connections.
Category 5 cable has a bandwidth of up to 100 mhz, support 10 or 100 mbps speed.
Cat5 ethernet cable is the oldest type of these cables. Using two cable pairs to signal over copper wire, cat5 is now largely archaic and isn’t widely used for ethernet connections. Cat5 is one of the most common cables existing today. Category 6 cable (cat 6), is a standardized twisted pair cable for ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the category 5/5e and category 3 cable standards.