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Cat 5 is a type or standard of ethernet cable (350 Mhz) and is not as good as the Cat 6 (500+Mhz) which will work wherever you were going to use the Cat 5 ethernet cable and not require replacement as cable/DSL broadband internet speeds increase

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The plugs look similar, but the ethernet cable plug is slightly larger in size. Cable itself between the plugs does not even look similar to the thin phone cord

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