Review on Cable Matters 8-Pack Snagless Short Cat5e Ethernet Cable - Blue 3ft Bundle for High-Speed Network Connections by Tom Duncan

Well they are what they are, 8 packs of cat. 5e is about as good as any home user needs. Cat6 shows a slightly higher transmission rate due to the tighter twist, but this is mostly negligible. If you have or look forward to 10Gb/s peripherals, by all means choose Cat6 if you need distance. Cat6e obviously doubles your 10Gb/s to 328ft. But Cat5e has been around for 15 years, tried and tested, and works well. If it's coming from your internet connection, don't worry, you're not capping your bandwidth at 1000 megabits per second at all. They're only now offering reasonable packages at 50 megabits per second, so it'll be a long time before you need to upgrade the cables. for gigabytes, I mean years, and who needs 125MB stable speed? It will happen soon enough, Cat6 offers 10 Gb/s, 10,000 Mb/s, that's 1250 Mb/s or 1.22 Gb constant rate streaming. Do you see any internet packages offering this anytime soon? This is for a home user or technician who transfers a lot of data internally. Cat5e works 99% of the time with more than enough room for expansion for the average computer user.