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skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day agoI had a similar experience moving into a new apartment that had ethernet sockets in all the walls. Took me a while to realize that the cables connecting the sockets up were oldschool Cat5 (100Mbps max) cable, so even though I was plugging Cat6a into the wall it didn’t do a lick of good. Wi-Fi 6 on the other hand if giving me a little under 1Gbps.
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can pretty reliably pull 1G with cat 5 over household distances (10m or so). More likely it’s the equipment limiting the speed.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Could be all the way down to 2 wire cables if they cheaped out hard enough
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah you need a minimum of two pairs for an Ethernet connection.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Ethernet over coax was very popular until CAT cables replaced them.
Natanael@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
www.microchip.com/en-us/…/single-pair-ethernet
There’s hardware that does it with one