The Cat 6 Ethernet cable supports higher bandwidths ... Cat 6 will be more than sufficient for high-speed networking, fast internet connectivity, and low-latency tasks like gaming.

Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 ... The bandwidth for twisted pair Ethernet wiring is in the MHz range, with Cat-5(e) hitting 100 MHz, Cat-6 250 MHz and Cat-6A 500 MHz.

As far as consumer network hardware goes, we’re all expected to be pretty happy with 802.11n WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet over Cat 6 cables ... are built for high-speed data center use, often ...