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Category 5 cable, an Uncommon card
Category 5 cable is a twisted pair cable for computer networks.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Category 5 cable quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Category 5 cable card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as ______ and video.
Answer
telephone. Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephone and video. From the Category 5 cable article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Since ____, the variant commonly in use is the Category 5e specification.
Answer
2000s. Since 2001, the variant commonly in use is the Category 5e specification. From the Category 5 cable article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ordinal number. Ordinal number 79 · Chainsaw 75 · White blood cell 71 · Category 5 cable 67 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Since 2001, the variant commonly in use is the Category 5e specification.
- The cable standard provides performance of up to 100 MHz and is suitable for most varieties of Ethernet over twisted pair up to 10GBASE-T but more commonly runs at 1000BASE-T speeds.
- Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephone and video.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Category 5 cable article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Category 5 cable
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Category 5 cable (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Richard Wheeler ( Zephyris ) at en.wikipedia )., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
