Which of the following is the MAXIMUM rated speed for CAT5 cabling?
A.
10Mbps
B.
100Mbps
C.
1000Mbps
D.
10Gbps
Which of the following is the MAXIMUM rated speed for CAT5 cabling?
Which of the following is the MAXIMUM rated speed for CAT5 cabling?
Answer is wrong. cat5 can do 1Gb
Category 5 cable, commonly referred to as cat 5, is a twisted pair cable for carrying signals. This type of cable is used in structured cabling for computer networks such as Ethernet. The cable standard provides performance of up to 100 MHz and is suitable for 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX (Fast Ethernet), and 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet). Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video.
The wiki article you pasted is correct, but it is also including cat5e. You can likely push gigabit ethernet through a plain old cat5 cable but it is not “rated” for it as the question asked. Cat5e is, but the question here is not asking about cat5e.
Good catch, was about to say the answer was wrong too. Thanks