[rmckayfleming]

I just bought a house this year, the previous owners lived in it for about 2 years from brand new. Thankfully it has an ethernet drop to every room upstairs, and in reasonable places on the main floor. Far better than the situation at the last place I lived in.

But annoyingly, it's all Cat5e! Sure, it's fine for gigabit, but now that I have proper networking equipment, I wish they'd have spent the extra few bucks and put in Cat6A or Cat7 so that I could get 10Gbps to my office from the rack in the basement...

[thfuran]

Cat5e is rated for higher than 1gbps for lengths you're likely to find in a home.

[pixl97]

If they didn't screw up too bad installing it (which is not a given), you may be able to tie off a new cable to it and use the existing cable as a pull.