Cat5 vs Cat5e vs Cat6 cable confusion

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Published on 2009-08-21T22:57:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 12:13 UTC
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I'm just about to move house so I'm going to have to disconnect and re-wire my network. Pretty much all the devices I have support gigabit ethernet should I go out an buy some decent network cables (and if so what type) or should I continue using my mix of cat5 cables I've acquired over the years.

Does the type of cable really make a difference to my LAN performance??

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