It is being pushed beyond its ratings, so there’s no guarantees that it will work. There’s no harm in trying Cat5e at higher speeds if it’s already installed, but don’t install it with the intention of using it at more than 2.5G.
As soon as switches get affordable enough, I do plan to try.
But my data center is an assortment of Raspberry Pi and similar. I’m not going to buy some used enterprise switch with a roaring fan and huge electrical consumption to connect my quiet, efficient datacenter.
So far I only have two devices that can talk greater than 1G, it’s more the number of things that have to talk across that “trunk”
Cat 5e has 8 wires just like any later standard. There’s nothing stopping you from trying a faster speed on it.
It is being pushed beyond its ratings, so there’s no guarantees that it will work. There’s no harm in trying Cat5e at higher speeds if it’s already installed, but don’t install it with the intention of using it at more than 2.5G.
Usually you’d be fine to use 5e for like 100ft 33m
As soon as switches get affordable enough, I do plan to try.
But my data center is an assortment of Raspberry Pi and similar. I’m not going to buy some used enterprise switch with a roaring fan and huge electrical consumption to connect my quiet, efficient datacenter.
So far I only have two devices that can talk greater than 1G, it’s more the number of things that have to talk across that “trunk”