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saltcured 81 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in m...

Cat 6 for sure. I thought there was some extra tweak beyond that, but I probably misremembered after all this time. Perhaps it was just that it was plenum-rated..

globular-toast 81 days ago [–]

You might be thinking of cat6a which officially supports 10G over long lengths, unlike cat6.

saltcured 81 days ago | [–]

Nah, it was definitely around 2006 which seems to be before cat 6a was ratified. So I couldn't have bought a reel marked that way...

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