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Virtuoso

Aug 10, 2021

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

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 c...

plemans

Guru - Experienced User

Aug 11, 2021

Most of the one's I've gotten have been cat 5e.

I haven't checked on my newer devices lately.

sktn77a

Virtuoso

Aug 11, 2021

Thanks. Were they marked as Cat5e?

plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 11, 2021
Some of them were. Not all.

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.

But I do know I checked them out.
- sktn77a
  Virtuoso
  Aug 11, 2021
  "But I do know I checked them out."
  
  Ah, how did you do this?
  - plemans
    Guru - Experienced User
    Aug 11, 2021
    Left eye and right eye...... There was marks on some that I recall 😀. Maybe not lately as I haven't looked in a while