Cat 3
· What sort of cabling is suitable for Fast Ethernet protocols?
The most popular cabling these days is Ethernet.
Ethernet cabling is cheap and fast enough for most purposes.
There are different types of gibabit Ethernet; the cabling can either be some kind of copper cable, usually UTP, or fiber optic.
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10base5
Ethernet networking typically uses category 5 or category 6 cabling.
Cat-6
Ethernet
10GBaseSR 10GBaseLR
Connect each device to a centralized LAN switch using UTP cabling
If you want greater speed, why not use gigabit ethernet? Just remember that all the devices and cabling must be capable of that speed or you won't actually see that speed.