Does Length Of Cat5e Cable Effect Internet Speeds?

[12twelve12]

I have 3 PC's in the house and currently 2 of them are accessing the internet via wireless. I am going to buy some long cat5e cable so that I can hard wire (under the house I go) these 2 computers to the router.

I see that Newegg has 100' of cat5e for a pretty good price but I only need about 30'-40' of cable.

1) Does the signal degrade with increased travel distance?

2) Would cat6 be a better choice or does it even matter? I have fiber optic internet.

3) I hate spiders

Thanks!

[flanzig1]

If you are going under the house, need to get plenum rated bulk cable. 300ft is the limit on CAT5 cable. CAT5e is fine, CAT5e and CAT6 are for gigabit networks.
Get a can of Ant and Bug spray.

[glc]

40 or 50 foot runs will be fine, get decent quality CAT5e.

[12twelve12]

Thank you.

[mbossman2]

1) Does the signal degrade with increased travel distance?

yes, but under 100m it makes no difference. ethernet spec is <100m without repeating.

2) Would cat6 be a better choice or does it even matter? I have fiber optic internet.

cat6 is niice but overkill....5e will do the job fine.

3) I hate spiders

so do I but bug spray and focus takes care of that