Sure enough, 80% of the Cat 6 cables they tested from big box stores etc. failed the specification. More surprising, many of them didn’t even pass the Cat 5e specification.

Cat5: A Little Older, A Little Slower Category 5 cabling, also known as Cat5, is an older type of network cabling. Cat5 cables were made to support theoretical speeds of 10Mbps and 100Mbps.

The benefit of using Cat6 cables means the port will also allow you to use the cable on Cat5e and Cat5 applications instead of Cat6, with a universal RJ45 connector fitting perfectly in both Cat6 ...

I am planning to switch to ATT fiber 1000 in the next month and plan on plenty of streaming/torrents. 1. Will MOCA be good enough for me, or will I have to run new cat5 or cat6 cable for best results?

Edit: After the interview, I remembered that we still have (we don't use them any longer) some of the pass-through type RJ-45 plugs for Cat 5e. I made two cables, each five feet long, using Belden ...