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legendary
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September 23, 2015, 07:54:19 PM
#11
What do I need to buy for my miners?  Cat5e or Cat6?  Thanks!


cat5/5e is fine for mining, i have 6 for my home network but for mining cat 5 is all you need . ,my home network is all  @1000 gib till it hits the net on fios but i have 6 just for my home use, it was cheap so i replaced my c5 to C6 .
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
September 23, 2015, 07:05:18 PM
#10
Cat5e is sufficient to run a gigabit network, you don't need Cat6. Besides, your internet connection is likely only 10M or so. Your speedy local network's bottleneck is still the internet connection.

I don't know if 10M is the normal  now.  I live in the middle of nowhere and have gigabit internet.

But as far as mining does not take anything special on bandwidth.  The shielding aspect was interesting someone put.  But really I don't think you will have a problem with either one your thinking about.
hero member
Activity: 895
Merit: 504
September 23, 2015, 06:53:10 PM
#9
The only time I had a problem with Cat5 when I run the cable besides electrical wires, devices would not to connect. Cat5e with better shield solved the problem, so look for cables with improved shielding.
hero member
Activity: 672
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September 23, 2015, 06:47:37 PM
#8
Cat5e is sufficient to run a gigabit network, you don't need Cat6. Besides, your internet connection is likely only 10M or so. Your speedy local network's bottleneck is still the internet connection.
legendary
Activity: 3374
Merit: 1859
Curmudgeonly hardware guy
September 23, 2015, 06:27:26 PM
#7
That depends a lot on your setup, both local and poolside. If it's one machine or one worker - in any case, one vardiff from the pool - you probably would see under fifty packets per minute. I'm not up on stratum protocol and vardiff optimization enough to give a thorough answer but if you don't have a lot of gear on separate pools or workers, a decent dial-up connection should have enough bandwidth required.
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 504
September 23, 2015, 05:25:53 PM
#6
interesting topic...can someone tell us aproximatly how much 1th of upload is in terms of bandwidth?
legendary
Activity: 3374
Merit: 1859
Curmudgeonly hardware guy
September 23, 2015, 05:19:08 PM
#5
Bandwidth requirement on miners doesn't exceed what 10base could handle. A lot of the controllers probably have 100mbit ethernet but you'll never come close to needing it.
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1068
September 23, 2015, 05:06:11 PM
#4
thats the other point, you can also take 1gbit per sec with cat5 cable type in short distance. it depends what switch you are using. btw miners not needed much bandwith
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1000
September 23, 2015, 12:49:13 PM
#3
No difference for mining. Get Cat 5 or 5e.
legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1001
September 23, 2015, 12:41:04 PM
#2
What do I need to buy for my miners?  Cat5e or Cat6?  Thanks!

you only need 5e for mining.. since it doesn't take up much bandwidth at all getting cat6 would be pointless
hero member
Activity: 546
Merit: 501
September 23, 2015, 12:40:06 PM
#1
What do I need to buy for my miners?  Cat5e or Cat6?  Thanks!
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