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Assuming you mean Cat5 and Cat5e, Category 5 and Category 5 Enhanced Unshielded Twisted Pair networking wire, the major difference is tighter control on the twists per inch on the wire pairs, and tighter tolerance on the capacitance per linear foot. Cat5 UTP cable will carry up to 100 megabits per second reliably. In theory, Cat5e UTP cable can carry up to 1000 megabits per second, but in actual usage, most gigabit network hardware will degrade to 300 megabits per second when transmitting over Cat5e cable.

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