Wiring CAT6 in house

[cuneus]

Hmm that's not an explanation

All this "HDMI", DCP handshaking etc have no "knowledge" of the physical layer of the network

The Gigabit speed of Cat5e/Cat6 is identical (unless it's installed badly)

[Mr Pointy]

What has Gigabit speed got to do with HDMI & an AV installation?

[talkssense]

cuneus said:

Hmm that's not an explanation

All this "HDMI", DCP handshaking etc have no "knowledge" of the physical layer of the network

The Gigabit speed of Cat5e/Cat6 is identical (unless it's installed badly)

I never said I could give you an explanation, I couldn't care less why one works and the other doesn't. What I said was that in my experience of installing multiple systems on both types, that for AV I would go for a properly installed CAT6 every time. It saves a load of grief and aggro because it supports pushing video and control over distance far better than CAT5 does. Even if specifications do not suggest that there should be any difference, my personal real world experience is that there is.

Edited by talkssense on Thursday 2nd April 17:36

[VEX]

cuneus said:

Hmm max distance for Gigabit is the same for Cat5e/Cat6, does HDMI use more than a Gigabit of bandwidth?

Yes but that is for data, we don't send many of our signals across the cat5/6 cables as data, even today most of the time the use of Cat-x cable as just a very useful cable (or pipe) to send signals up and down, it isn't data.

It is the larger frequency range that is available using cat6 over cat5 that is useful to us.

V.

[cuneus]

VEX said:

cuneus said:

Hmm max distance for Gigabit is the same for Cat5e/Cat6, does HDMI use more than a Gigabit of bandwidth?

Yes but that is for data, we don't send many of our signals across the cat5/6 cables as data, even today most of the time the use of Cat-x cable as just a very useful cable (or pipe) to send signals up and down, it isn't data.

It is the larger frequency range that is available using cat6 over cat5 that is useful to us.

V.

Thanks for that - I understand now