I’m told that putting a horse’s head in their bed helps.
What is the general difference between category 5e and category 6?
The general difference between category 5e and category 6 is in the transmission performance, and extension of the available bandwidth from 100 MHz for category 5e to 200 MHz for category 6. This includes better insertion loss, near end crosstalk (NEXT), return loss, and equal level far end crosstalk (ELFEXT). These improvements provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio, allowing higher reliability for current applications and higher data rates for future applications.
http://www.broadbandutopia.com/caandcaco.html
Your Google-fu needs work, Grasshopper. A search for “Cat 6 vs cat 5e” came up with this (and others):
http://www.broadbandutopia.com/caandcaco.html
From what I read, you should insist they return to install the promised Cat 6.
Unless your talking 10 gig ethernet I don’t see any benefit.
The biggest difference between Cat5e and Cat6 is marketing.
What were the agreed upon specifications of your contract? If it was so important, it should have been inserted in the plans and specs for the bid.
If they met those terms, they are not likely to be in breach of contract.
Merely discussing what was to be installed with the installer does not a contract make, especially when it is after the agreement has been reached and he is out there installing things already.
It would be different if they represented something falsely before entering into the agreement, as that may have been something that you relied on when you reached a price.
If these assumptions are correct, and you need the better version, you may have to pay for the change order to the contract.
IMHO.
The throughput from a wireless dish is never going to come close to saturating 5e so it shouldn’t be an issue. It’s probably 1% of the capacity max?
Cat5e should support gigabit Ethernet and you are after al connecting a radio which will not come anywhere near that speed of throughput.