- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Network cable, also known as Category 5 Cable, or Cat 5 cable for short....although now you ar more likely to be using Cat5E which is the next generation of Cat 5 but you really don't need to know that. It is just the cable that is used for networking computers, or in your case hooking the computer up to the modem.