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Cat5e Cable: An Underrated Hero

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  Ethernet cables are not glamorous. But they exist and bring the internet to our devices. So, the cables must be paid attention to. Cat5e ethernet cable has been a favorite for a while now, whether for home or the office. It’s reliable and gets the job done.  When setting up wiring for home or office, it is always better to future-proof the setup, thus eliminating the need to break walls every so often. Let’s talk about a long term setup for your home: If you want to set up a futuristic house, you need to upgrade your cabling and ensure that it is done in a way that it remains upgradable over the coming years. This is when a patch panel system comes into play.  Now any normal in-house cabling would mean you would have a bunch of things plugged into your wall all over the place. And if you need to upgrade, you’d have to go through your walls. With a patch panel set up, you can finish your in-wall wiring once and keep the outside wiring neat and tidy. UTP Cat5e patch cable...

Cat5e Cables: The Unsung Hero of a Connected Smart Home

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Cat5e cable is an upgrade to the cat5 cable. The ‘ e ’ stands for ‘ enhanced ’. A cat 5 cable can transfer data at the maximum speed of 100Mbps whereas the cat5e cable can go up to 1000Mbps . However, when we say fast, it is not always obvious that it is reliable. The cat5e cable is the more reliable one out of the two. Because of its speed and reliability, it should be an obvious choice for any internet intensive usage. Contrary to a popular belief that only enterprises and the IT industry have internet intensive usage, our homes are just as internet intensive. And so are the product companies that run our smart home appliances. This brings us to the question of what a smart home includes. A smart home is a home that has connected devices for entertainment, convenience, and security. A number of convenience and security-based electronic tasks rely on the concept of IFTTT. The IFTTT protocol works best when there is a seamless and constant connection to the internet. Therefo...