| 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
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