Is Cat7 Cable Faster Internet Surfing than Cat6 or Cat5e?

[Peachesbackwards]

Hopefully someone can give me the right info and advice about what kind of ethernet cable will give me the fastest internet surfing speed and the fastest downloading times: Cat7, Cat6 or Cat5e. I have Roadrunner SuperTurbo Service (their fastest speed which offers 20mbs constantly). I have a Windows 7 laptop with 8 GB memory. I use Firefox. Will 1 cable take me from say google.com to CNNSI.com (Sports Illustrated) faster than the others? What about if I'm downloading files? Thanks for any info

 

[linkin]

Nope. 20mbps is the speed of your internet service, the only thing that would limit you would be an old router (most if not all are 100mbps now) and CAT5e and above can do 1gbps.

 

[MyDixieWrecked]

CAT5 and CAT6 are the same, save some extra shielding. Linkin is correct. Your internet connection is 20mbps, so that's the most amount of data you'll be able to pass per second, no matter what connection you make to the router. Cheers.