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Newly built 2 story home wired with cat5e. How difficult would it be to upgrade it to cat6a? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by rosewoods@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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I want to try and do it myself. The patch panel is in a closet located in the middle of my house. Figure I can tie one end of the cat6a to the wall jack side of the cat5e and pull it all the way through from the patch panel. Would it be that easy?

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[–] Pools-3015@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That would depend on if conduit or smurf tubing was used and if the cables went to the attic or basement and you have access to them. if not you may fund there are some sharp turns where some cables may get stuck.

Why do you want to change all of them to Cat6A? Cat 5 can do gigabit speeds?