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Cosmo1111
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_ 		15. April 2005 @ 08:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess this is the place to ask adsl/broadband questions.

I just wanted to know if some cords (from modem to wall) are faster than others. I know theres the traditional blue one. But then theres these black ones which are proclaimed as "Advance High Speed Connection". Do they make a difference, speed wise?
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Toiletman
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_ 		15. April 2005 @ 10:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't know too much about internet lines, but I don't think it would matter if you got either, since you can only reach the speed your modem allows.

I have a RJ45 (the blue cable) and I reach pretty much 90% of my advertised speed. (You can never really reach 100%)
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~RoNin~
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_ 		15. April 2005 @ 10:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
rj-45 is actually the name for the terminator on the cord(fyi rj-11 is your telephone line terminator= the jack). The cords themselves are separated into catagories...cat1 cat2 cat3 cat4 cat5 and newest cat6 and cat7...

UTP= unsheilded twisted pair

cat1- utp telephone cabling...carrys only voice no data

cat2- utp cabling up to 4Mbps

cat3- utp cabling bandwidth up to 10Mbps

cat4- utp cabling bandwidth up to 16Mbps

cat5- " " " up to 100Mbps

cat5e- enhanced utp desinged to improve shortcommings of cat5 cabling...acceptable cable for full-duplex operation and Gigabit Ethernet

cat6- recommended utp standard for ethernet over copper medium at speeds up to 1 Gigabit

cat7- capable of doubling the data transer rate of cat6

Guess what, I remembered all of that from class...(Network Admin Student)

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Cosmo1111
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_ 		15. April 2005 @ 13:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I knew I shouldn?t have fallen asleep fantasizing about porn, in class.

I looked it up; it?s a Cat 6. So it could help. Well it must be very, very new because the site I'm looking at them on, well about a month ago they had the RJ45 (blue cords) and now they don't, instead they have the Cat 6, black ones.

Sorry RJ45, your outdated, "you?ve been terminated".
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~RoNin~
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_ 		15. April 2005 @ 14:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cosmo, am I reading your post correctly? The way I understand it you are confused (no offense). The rj-45 is the actual plastic connector itself. rj-45 is the type of connector that is used on most all copper based ethernet. The cable should say somewhere on it what catagory it is...most likely cat5 or 6.

edit* So your still using a rj-45 but your cabling is cat6.

Did I clear this up for you or were you right all along and I was just missreading your post?
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