Eathernet Cable ? Mhz?

[MonsterMag]

I am looking to add to xboxs to my LAN. What MHZ do you reccomend? I have small ones that are around 6 feet and are 350Mhz. They work great at connecting one xbox to my Lan , I am linking the 2 xboxs together and to the Internet. Should I get the 500Hhz ? Or stick with the 350? The lines are 50ft by the way. Thanks for the help

[xmetal2001]

If you are plugging into a switch just use a basic cat5e patch cable...
If you are hooking two xboxes into eachother use a crossover...

[MonsterMag]

Xbox 1 -Router
Xbox 2 -Router
I want to system link them and give them both internet capabilitys

[SeeK]

Regular CAT 5 is fine for that.

You can use CAT 5e or any of the higher MHz ones if they are the same/lower price but you won't get any benefits. The enhanced cables MIGHT only make a difference if you were running Gigabit rather than 100 Meg Ethernet.

[WickeDKlowN]

If you are plugging into a switch just use a basic cat5e patch cable...
If you are hooking two xboxes into eachother use a crossover...

What he said.

[MonsterMag]

Regular CAT 5 is fine for that.

You can use CAT 5e or any of the higher MHz ones if they are the same/lower price but you won't get any benefits. The enhanced cables MIGHT only make a difference if you were running Gigabit rather than 100 Meg Ethernet.

Thanks

[Target Practice]

Actually, they make cat6, now.EMBEMBEMBEMBEMBEMB

[legion_02]

to be technical...

Cat7 is out also, just not completely standardized

[Hexis]

For 100Mbit (100baseT) cat5e is overkill. You only need Cat5. I suspect you could get reliable 100mbit over cat3 with these short distances. The cable specs beyone Cat5e are for GigE.

[SeeK]

For 100Mbit (100baseT) cat5e is overkill. You only need Cat5. I suspect you could get reliable 100mbit over cat3 with these short distances. The cable specs beyone Cat5e are for GigE.

Actually most Gigbit will run over Cat5 at under 50m.

Cat5e and 6 have lower crosstalk and other limits but since Gigabit was designed to run over Cat5/5e then Cat6 is overkill.

10 Gigabit is another story but those cards probably cost more than most people's computers.