Originally Posted by gof
What are you all using for cable on the gigabit runs? When we redid our house I put in cat5e (best std at the time) and it is in conduit so it *could* be changed, but does gigabit require cat6 or will it work well enough over cat5/5e?
I bought a bunch of $2.99 Cat 6 cables at the Tiger direct outlet, but 2 of the PC's are still running Cat5, and have no problems at all. As long as the CAT5's were of decent quality you should be fine.