Cat5 and Cat6 Ethernet cables are both popular options for wired networking, but there are some important differences between them and reasons why you're probably better off picking the newer Cat6 ...

WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they couldn’t just keep building the cables the way they used to.

Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 one between ... pair Ethernet wiring is in the MHz range, with Cat-5(e) hitting 100 MHz, Cat-6 250 MHz and Cat-6A 500 MHz.