Cat5, Cat5e or Cat6 cables supplied by Netgear with their routers

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OK, not sure where to post this but seeing as it applies mostly to my R7000 gigabit routers, I thought I'd try here. Over the years (last 5-6 years or so) I've bought several Netgear routers which came with 1 yellow (WAN) and one dark blue (LAN) ethernet cables. There are no markings of any kind on the outer cable (where it would usually say what category the cable is).

Does anybody know what is the specification of these cable supplied by Netgear with their (gigabit) routers? Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6?

Thanks in advance

plemans · Answer

Most of the one's I've gotten have been cat 5e.
I haven't checked on my newer devices lately.&nbsp;

sktn77a · Answer

Thanks.&nbsp; Were they marked as Cat5e?&nbsp;&nbsp;

plemans · Answer

Some of them were. Not all.&nbsp;
I couldn't tell you which ones exactly because their mixed up with all my other cables so I'm not sure which ones came from which anymore.&nbsp;
But I do know I checked them out.&nbsp;

sktn77a · Answer

"But I&nbsp;do know I checked them out."&nbsp;Ah, how did you do this?

plemans · Answer

Left eye and right eye...... There was marks on some that I recall 😀. Maybe not lately as I haven't looked in a while

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Cat5, Cat5e or Cat6 cables supplied by Netgear with their routers

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