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Can a Cat6 connector work on a Cat5e cable?
Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2018

If you’ve been running Ethernet cable or making patch cables for any length of time, you now have an assortment of RJ45 connectors and cable types representing the evolution of your network. You may be tempted to use what you have on hand to do your work, mixing and matching a bit. Visions haunt you of hunting through the cable jungle only to find that it was one of your cables that came loose, cable from connector, or even worse -- looks just fine, but really isn’t making reliable contact. But is that just unnecessary worry?


View our latest blog:  Can a Cat6 connector work on a Cat5e cable?

Can a Cat6 connector work on a Cat5e cable?
 
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