Should I use Cat5 or Cat6 Cable?

CAT-5 cable is no longer produced. CAT-5e is in wide use and replaced the old CAT-5 spec. CAT-5e and CAT-6 support the same maximum speeds so there's little need to spend the extra money for CAT-6 cable.

The only time you'd get any benefit at all from CAT-6 is on a network running at gigabit speeds with very heavy traffic loads and even then you'd need sophisticated instrumentation to tell you that it was working any better.

I'm a network engineer in an enterprise setting and the only place where we use CAT-6 cabling is on our SAN to interconnect the iSCSI initiators, SAN switches, and storage units. The rest of the network, all running at gigabit speeds to the desktop, runs fine on CAT-5e at a substantial savings over CAT-6 cabling. When you run CAT-6 cabling the rest of your infrastructure must be qualified to CAT-6 standards as well, including cable ends, wall jacks, patch panels, etc. That all adds substantially to the cost of a CAT-6 infrastructure.

I'd go with the Cat6. The extra expense for the cable is minimal, and the effort of installation is the same, and you'd be ready for any future hardware upgrades you might decide to make. Get Cat6 patch panels and jacks too. BTW www.monoprice.com has excellent prices on bulk cable and accessories.

At the moment a Cat5e cable will suffice for the average user. Unless you're into multimedia or moving a lot of large files (1Gb+) constantly, only then should you consider Cat6 (which is designed for 1Gbit connections).

Cat 5 is designed to support 100Mbit networks

Cat 5e supports speeds up to 500Mbit

Cat 6 is designed for full duplex Gigabit

Keep in mind the speeds are in Bits, 8 bits in a byte.

If you are using just to connect a system or two then you can go for CAT5E. It should fulfill your needs. There is no need to go for CAT6. If you are using an internet with 1GBPS connection then it will be better for you to go for CAT6 cable.

well i yhink CAT5 is good one especially in home use ,suitable bit rate

you should get CAT5e for more bit rate