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By coincidence, I'm having a run of Cat 6 installed at home tomorrow to connect my basement to the 2nd floor office. Cat 5e will support 1 Gigabit. Cat 6 will support higher frequencies and therefore higher bandwidth (I don't remember how high offhand.) and is really an investment in the future. For the difference in price and the cost of doing it over again in 5 years, why not go with Cat 6? The cost difference as explained to me is something like 25 cents per foot (don't quote me). For 1000 feet of cable, we're talking about an extra $250. I don't have any info on commercial routers.
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