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There is no difference in the crimp between cat6 and cat7. None. Zero. It is the exact same process, the same pins.
Cat7 has larger conductors and specific connectors to accommodate them, but you can still make a cat6 connector work on a cat7 cable with some elbow grease.
It’s also totally pointless for 90% of use cases.
The differences in spec come from the shielding material in the cable, and the number of twists, the connectors themselves are the same standard
Yes, shielding. What I meant though, because they're otherwise identical: do you purchase cat6 or cat7 or whichever is cheaper.
Usually cat6a. It gives a good balance of cost and still maintaining support for 10gbps speeds down the line.
I’m what I would consider a power user though, odds of consumer equipment adopting 10gbps at the client level any time soon are low, so for endpoints anything above cat6 is usually a waste
Thanks