 So I'm here hanging out with Cory today, and we grabbed a couple boxes of cable out of his truck And we're gonna do a video on all the equipment you need to have a wiring truck as soon as we organize it just a little I hope been busy. Yeah, he's been busy. What can you say? We're wiring a lot of stuff here and People ask that questions about this one. This is a quick video talk about some of the differences in the cable now This is we're doing a job right now that requires cat 6a cable This is cat 6 cable what we got here cat. This is the cat 6 shielded cat 6 shielded This is cat 6 and that is regular cat 5 or cat 5 So when we start holding the cables up together, you're gonna start seeing a difference here. So let me just pull them all together All right Get that out of the loop here. Oh, oh, oh, I wasn't ready. So what we have here is The cables your cat 6 and cat 5 look pretty much the same They're not a big difference between them once you get into a shielded cable though you have this little extra piece of shielding here to cut down our frequencies and It's a little bit thicker once you go all the way the cat takes a this stuff is heavy and You know it pulls pretty much the same to the ceiling. It's a heck of a lot more difficult. It's a lot more weight This is a these cables once you get to cat 6a only come in these larger spools now Cat 5e it's been around forever We still install a lot of it some people are kind of surprised by that But it comes down to budgets and cat 5e will do 300 meters full gigabit connection and that's fast enough for most people I know someone's screaming right now saying oh, no, you should just always go to the best And I'm like reality is not everybody can afford it. I reckon afford it when in its scales upward Yeah, it's only a little bit more until you're doing a thousand drops at a time. The other thing is Cat 6 as well if you're just going straight cat 6 has the same limitation of 300 meter gigabit So there's not a big difference between the two of them But cat 6 will do 37 meters at 10 gigabit So you can get faster speeds out of it So it does have some potential but only up to 37 meters the particular project we're working on is Requires cat 6a because they need longer than 37 meters to have 10 gigabit It's for a bunch of switching equipment. We're putting in so the cat 6a is nice, but boy just It's a lot everything about it It's this this the weight of this is probably equal to the weight of Both of these put together the cat 5 and the cat 6 just the cat 6a when you're running it you instead of being in a box You also have to think about distribution So we have spools that we hold these on you pull them off with spools as a whole amount of boxes So there's also the more setup time to more work There's a lot more that goes into somebody can't say why I'm more prep work. Yeah, and then it goes a step further So I it takes seconds Corey can probably do these in his sleep and probably has them in a sleep when it comes to Just punch it down these cat 5s. They snap in real easy. They're very much Standard, you know the easy to do punch them down. Here's the keystone. Here's the patch panel No big deal very thin very very thin wire very thin two thing in here on the back You can just push them in with the little tool no problem It gets a little bit more rigid when we go to cat 6, but the spacing is just about identical between these So they you can't really tell the difference doesn't look really close the wires Okay, a little bit tighter on there. So this is your cat 6 once But once you get to cat 6a, it's much much different much much different The cat 6a cable is so heavy and this particularly this particular one is a keystone shielded We have one of the keystones out and I'll show you close up here of what the keystone looks like now These are different because these push in and locked out not all of them are going to be shielded So we have an unshielded keystone on one end and a shielded one at the other This particular piece of cable is a shielded one. It's different than the cable right here This is cat 6a unshielded But if you're in a high RF environment like the if your comm room has got a lot of other electrical Interferences are going in automotive. So we needed this shielded ones on here And also your keystones some of the cat 6a you can buy shielded to and they have a huge huge price difference These are almost six dollars a piece Yeah, the price jumps up quite a bit once you go to these cat 6a connectors So it adds a lot to the job as well So you have to consider that when you're putting this all together and making sure that you have the right ends for the job And the shielding makes another process So you end up taking a lot longer to push these in pull the cable apart The guys are laughing before we started the video watching me trying to cut through the shielding on this Because I I take a I get scissors on a pocket knife just a real quick You can run around with your finger like this and you can pop the cable right off This stuff not so much. It's it's a lot more to work with by the time you do about 12 or 13 of these Your fingers are pretty sore your fingers are really sore on these It's a lot of especially when you have to pull these out like this And put them in you can see just how and that's even heavier shielding is than this It's even heavier than this and you can see the cable it wants to It's just a lot of memory curl back up which causes a lot even with this metal end on it It causes a lot more You know a lot more problems pulling it trying to keep it straight going up into a ceiling tile to pull it to your Destination and that that's part of the struggle with the cat 6a really Yeah, so once you get a bundle of these or as we would do we have a group of them on spools And we're trying to pull a lot at once Everything is amplified so you have to have Larger rings and chases when you're pulling is true It doesn't just pull is easy over things because the cable itself is so rigid It doesn't pull easy So this does increase the price a little bit and this is why the labor prices go up as well as This cable costs about three times with that cat 5e cost down there So it's not a little bit of a change when you start scaling to these larger jobs It's a whole lot more the nice thing is with these we've settled on for the cat 6a's Even if they're not shielded the modular ones become a whole lot easier to work with Because once you go to these whether non-modular where you just punch down and braid the wires in between here You don't want to do that with the cat 6a because it's so thick the modular once you go to these they're great The downside of the modular is they are a little bit bigger so they don't they're not as space conserving So you get a little bit wider and they're about twice as heavy too. They're oh, yeah It weighs a lot more. It's a lot heavier But the nice thing is when you take these out you just pop the individual units out wire them and pop them back in making it really easy to Do the process now they do also make the non-shielded cat 6a patch panels As well and you know, yeah, you can get them a non-shielded They're a pain in the butt to get to get your wire management to come off of that properly because they just kind of want to float Wherever they land and and that's a that's a big deal when you're talking about a cable That doesn't quite ply as good as maybe the cat 5. Yeah And once you get to these jobs where you're doing two or 300 runs and you're doing a series of counter rooms Your fingers are bleeding by the end of each day trying to push them down That's one of the reasons we go once we get to this larger cable going modular makes it way easier I like the non-modular when you're doing with the small ones But once you get to these larger jobs, the other nice thing too because the cables instead of coming in from each side And being braided through they're going to punch straight in there So each cable and I'll show you by putting this one back in the hole Here. Yeah, you gotta hold it for you. Yeah, I got it. Okay It's these things are like notably heavy. Yeah, so we uh, we put it in If I get it in there, right? I got it upside down, don't I? I do. Yeah, I do This is why I hire him because I will put things in wrong and get them stuck. I'm consistent at this here I have a professional pull out for me now You never actually you hire my company and you hire your smart people I hire you don't actually hire me to do the wiring I know where all the wires need to go and that's but it and then when you're doing a cable management now Now that's properly put in you'll see how the wires are going to come straight out So the back of the cat six every one of them is coming straight in like this Another thing too, tom This is modular panel comes with trays that actually slot in here to where you actually have a retainer once you finish One row you put that retainer on and then you zip tie the wire to it And it keeps the wire perfectly straight out away from the back of the cat six a panel Because it they want to twist on you. There's just nothing you can do about it Right. That's another problem you do is that cables want to twist up on you These are some considerations if you want to get into cat six a or you want us to wire cat six a for you These are all the other consideration that goes into here So the extended labor on the back end has to be calculated into the job versus cat 5e Like we can do those in our sleep and standard, you know doing around if you have to put rg45 ends on these two That's another pain in a bud. They're shielded as well But they take probably about five times as long to do one as it does to do like two or three of the cat five ends Preferably we love to put jacks on the end of these as well Because once in these years these are all those considerations you want to you want to start thinking about how bad do you need cat six a I mean if you have unlimited budget, awesome Spool this stuff out. Matter of fact cat sevens available We don't have any of that today in stock. So we're not going to cover that. Uh, but that's available. I know cat Cat a is I believe on the horizon. I seem to spec for it. I don't know when it's coming out Just started talking about it. Yeah, so I don't know when we're getting there But in terms of cat six a it is available. You can get the full You know 10 gigabit connections over this So that's if you have that type of use case like the particular job we're doing To install all these which is in the car dealership networks It's great. They have the budget for it If you don't have the budget for it just stepping down So even all the way to cat five gigabit connections still really relevant and probably will be for a long time A lot of people are fine with that level of speed Because the 10 gigabit connectors on your computer are still a little bit pricey The price doesn't come down that much. It's working there and I know someone's screaming There's but tom you can buy the asus one for less than 100 I know but there's still not standard equipment on most pcs bought here in 2018 But don't worry. We'll do a new video as soon as that does become standard I'm like remember back what we thought gigabit was fast enough All right, thanks that said this wanted to cover these real quick because a lot of people seem to have questions About all the wiring and we're still working on doing some more onsite wiring jobs That comes down to a lot of permission But we will when we aren't busy we'll do the video on everything you have to have the equipment We have just to get all the wiring done like all the tools that we use and everything else So keep watching like subscribe and all that fun stuff and hire us for wiring jobs if you want We're in Detroit and the greater Detroit and tri-county area We'll go down as far as Toledo and we'll even go all the way to Toledo Thanks for watching if you like this video go ahead and click the thumbs up Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well Because we love hearing a feedback or if you just want to say thanks Leave a comment if you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out Go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications Hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube Anyways, if you want to contract us for consulting services You go ahead and hit laurancesystems.com and you can reach out to us for all the projects that we can do And help you we work with a lot of small businesses IT companies Even some large companies and you can farm different work out to us Or just hire us as a consultant to help design your network Also, if you want to help the channel in other ways we have a patreon We have affiliate links you'll find them in the description You'll also find recommendations to other affiliate links and things you can sign up for on laurancesystems.com Once again, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video