Remote cable question

I didn't see the answer to this in the manual.. I normally make my own cables by putting ethercon ends on standard Cat 5 cables. I abide by AWG 26 for under 15' and AWG 24 for up to 25. Just wondering does it matter if I use Cat 5 , Cat6 or Cat7 cables or is Cat 5 just as good as long as the wire spec is maintained?

Just checking because if Cat 6 or 7 worked better, I'd look at using them. If it matters not, I'll stick to what I'm doing. I just want the very best connection possible and the price between these cables is not an issue.

After reviewing, I bought a (probably unnecessary) Cat 6 cable for $3.95 with AWG 24 copper wire. I guess I'll find out....

Quote from BayouTexan

You would have to bring this up after I just terminated a dozen network cables for my home and my fingertips are fried getting all those damn little wires into the connectors with the proper color alignment.

BTW, cat5 and cat6 are backwards compatible. I even think that is so for cat7 and cat8. They all use the same connector. Not fun dealing with the extra shielding though. You get faster transfer speeds the higher you go.

I've done that. They make newer ones that are much easier, I think they're called EZ pass or Snap plugs.

I think Cat 6 should be about as good as the Kemper could utilize. It probably doesn't matter if it would handle speeds over 100Mbs. Actually Cat 5 would likely be as fast as it gets I'm guessing but since Cat6 is super cheap, why not?

I haven't read anything from Kemper about this likely because it's more important to keep length / wire size in spec. than using higher data transfer capability and super shielding.