There are two main physical differences between cat 5 and cat 6 cables the number of twists per cm in the wire and sheath thickness.
Cat5e cable wire size.
Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video.
Cat 5e is currently the most commonly used cable mainly due to its low production cost and support for speeds faster than cat 5 cables.
Cable twisting length is not standardized but typically there are 1 5 2 twists per cm in cat 5 e and 2 twists per cm in cat 6.
With the innovation of cat6 cat6a and cat7 cables cat5e cables may soon meet the same fate as cat5 cables.
24 gauge gray 4 pair 8 conductor solid utp plenum cat 5e cable.
In fact if you go to most online it stores you will find that they are no longer selling cat5 cables for purchase.
Syston cable technology 1 000 ft.
Category 5 cable cat 5 is a twisted pair cable for computer networks since 2001 the variant commonly in use is the category 5e specification cat 5e the cable standard provides performance of up to 100 mhz and is suitable for most varieties of ethernet over twisted pair up to 1000base t gigabit ethernet.
Cat 6 they re tightly wound and usually outfitted with.