Cable for Freebie Shelf

I’m cleaning up my garage and I found a partial spool of Cat 5, some speaker cable and some odds and ends from when I wired my house 35 years ago. (It was brand-new then and will be paid off in a couple of years. We refinanced it twice)

In any case, I’m willing to put the wire on the freebie shelf, but I really don’t know how much use it would be since Cat 6, 7, and 8 have been released and sold.

I don’t think there is a lot of copper in it, either.

The speaker wire is simple twisted pair wire and I think it is 16 or 18 gauge, It is definitely not 12 gauge wire.

The odds and ends are coax and cat 5 I think.

It is going in the garbage if ya’ll don’t think I should bring it in. If you want it please let me know, and I’ll bring it in.

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Just bring it in on Friday or later. There’s a note on the Freebie Shelf that anything that’s there tomorrow is getting dumped.

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CAT 5 cable is great for making jumper wires for solderless breadboards.

If I’m up there I would definitely grab it, I actually need some cat5 (don’t care if it’s shielded it’s for something low data rate but needs twists) and speaker wire is always handy. I’d say put it up there and watch how quick it disappears (I give it 48 hours lol)

Cat5e is still the standard for general purpose data transmission. Unless you’ve got really long runs or you need data center levels of bandwidth, you won’t gain anything by using the much more expensive cat 6, 7, etc cables.
I’ve got no use for it, but it’s good stuff.

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