I’ve got to run some cabling in my house from the internet providers modem to the router in another room. I’ve got insufficient Cat5e (which is used throughout the house) to complete this in a single run without a splice - which would be in an inconvenient place anyway.

Therefore, I’m going to purchase a new drum of cabling. So do I continue with Cat5e as per remainder of house or do I run Cat6 or Cat6a instead as a means of keeping part of the network up to date.

I have some other work planned which would required PoE end devices. which do I go for? I don’t think that anywhere in the system I would have a cable run from router exceeding 50m.

Does Cat6 and Cat6a terminate with same network connections as Cat5e - I’m almost 100% sure they do, but I do remember something about bend radius and some Cat6 (or was it Cat6a) being difficult to terminate into the connectors.

I’ve got a crimping tool, tester and connectors that I’ve used on cat5e - not sure if they are suitable for Cat6. Are they?

I was thinking of getting Cat6 and using my own connections. Is that a reasonable plan?