Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B

Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by nly on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @01:08PM (#9533191)

Fiber is future proof but most people don't have it. The process of getting it is called growth. If it's the case that making the "pipes" a public utility would have hindered growth, then you would never have got fiber.

And 100M ethernet over Cat5e is pretty useless. Standard WiFi these days is 150-300 Mbps. I regret not running Cat6 in to my extension just to be safe.

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by sliverstorm on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @02:00PM (#9533631)

I would run Cat6a if I was building a house, because it's the latest spec and not much more expensive, but Cat5e is still great. Standard WiFi never gets anywhere close to those speeds, is simplex, and I find a 10Mbps Ethernet (powerline) link handily outperforms a 100Mbps WiFi connection for networked file system access. (Probably either an issue with the simplex or dropped packets)

P.S. Cat5e can still do 1Gbps, just not over quite as great a distance as Cat6. Although Cat5e definitely isn't rated for 10Gbps (nor is vanilla Cat6 for that matter)

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by foldor on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @03:45PM (#9534365)

Cat5e does do gigabit speeds. You might be thinking of it's predecessor Cat5.

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