Do I need a cat 5e or a cat 6 cable?

Hi everyone
The cable that connects my infinity router to the home hub says cat 5e on it and as I require a slightly longer cable should I replace it with another cat 5e cable or would I be better replacing it with a cat 6 cable?
Does one offer any advantage over the other at all?

pauljm wrote:
Why bother with the more expensive cat6 to (hopefully) increase LAN speed when the broadband speed is nowhere near!
Cat6 is only really needed in an office environment where you have a significant amount of internal LAN traffic.
First the difference in price between CAT5e and CAT 6 is negligible.
Second CAT5e is more than good enough for what we have now.
Third get CAT6 now while it's relatively cheap for the future.

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