Question about ethernet cables.

Is it true that I need good quality cables like this one to get good quality internet? My internet's fast at the moment but my friend said it's low quality and I need better cables.

If you want to waste $500. I could think of plenty other things to waste it on, like beer or food. :P

Monoprice

20ft cat5e cable $2.13.

Don't listen to your friend. All cat5e cable is built to a minimum specification which is used all over the world.

Don't believe for one second that the like of AT&T, Bell, Comcast, Oracle, MSFT, Google....well you get my point pays 500 dollars for anything less then 5000 ft of cat5e cable.

All this all digital, gold plated, triple twisted double insulated bullcrap is just that.

It's all a marketing ploy to have you purchase a cable with a markup of 499 dollars.

Get the cheap stuff because you aren't going to see improvements of internet speed with a "better" cable

And if you are that worried just get cat6 cable which gives up to 1Gbit/s vs 155Mbit/s but considering that the best to the home internet is 101 Mbit/s I think cat5e is just fine.

All this all digital, gold plated, triple twisted double insulated bullcrap is just that.

It's all a marketing ploy to have you purchase a cable with a markup of 499 dollars.dlp21

The only benefit of a fancy cable is less attenuation, which in a typical home setup is a negligible benefit. It can't increase the bit rate to give you faster internet... that's just nonsense.

Well according to a review:

"After I took delivery of my $500 Denon AKDL1 Cat-5 uber-cable, Al Gore was mysteriously drawn to my home, where he pronounced that Global Warming had been suspended in my vicinity.

Yes, I had perfect weather: no flooding, no tornadoes, the exact amount of rain necessary, and he pronounced sea levels exactly right and that they were not going to rise within five miles of my house.

Additionally, my cars began achieving 200 mpg and I didn't even need gasoline. I was able to put three grams of cat litter into the tank and drive forever.

What's more, the atmosphere inside my home became 93% oxygen and virtually no carbon dioxide. In fact, I now exhale oxygen.

One heck of a cable.

Didn't notice any improvement in audio quality though."

So unless you want Al Gore to suspend global warming at your house, don't buy these.

Alright. Most of the people have told you simply not to but haven't given you rationalization as to why. So here's some facts.

Assuming you paid $20 for your current cable and the next cable you're looking at is $500 that means the $500 needs to be AT LEAST 25x more efficient to reap the worth of that extra cost. (20x25=500)

Now, let's assume that you have cable internet on an 8Mb plan. When you download from direct download/ftp/p2p you get approximately 2Mb. Assuming that the only thing that affected your speeds were the cables on your end; the most improvement you could get here is a 4x improvement. Now consider that most download is limited by whomever is uploading, the distance travelled, and the quality of connection in between. You will never, ever see the reward for that type of price tag.

Also, I bought a 100ft roll of cabling and made my own wire. I max out my download speeds. They cannot possibly go faster. So apparently I should start selling the cables that I hand make for $500?

If you want better cat cables, get cat6. In order from worst to best the cables go: cat5, cat5e, cat6. So just get a higher number. They don't cost any more usually and unless you're doing something very high tech cat5e is the best you will ever need.