Cables

Cable Type	Common Name	Physical Layer Name	Speed	Max Length (M)
RG-6	Satellite TV	N/A		N/A
RG-8	Thicknet	10Base5	10 Mbps	50 (drop) 500 (backbone)
RG-58	Thinnet	10Base2	10 Mbps	185
RG-59	Cable TV	N/A		N/A
CAT3 UTP	Fast Ethernet	10 Base-T	10/100 Mbps	100
CAT4 UTP	Fast Ethernet	10 Base-T	16 Mbps	100
CAT5	Fast Ethernet	10 Base-T 100 Base-T4 100 Base-TX	10/100 Mbps	100
CAT5e	Gigabit Ethernet	10 Base-T 100 Base-T4 100 Base-TX 1000 Base-T	10/100/1000 Mbps	100
CAT6	Gigabit Ethernet	10 Base-T 100 Base-T4 100 Base-TX 1000 Base-T	10/100/1000 Mbps	100

All Category cable can be used for Token Ring.

10 Base-T, 100 Base-TX, 100 Base-T2 use 2 wire pairs

100 Base-T4, 1000 Base-T use 4 wire pairs