350MHz Ethernet Cable any good?

[A17]

I'm planning to acquire 40 ft of one of these cables so that my wii can finally have a virtually lagless (wired) connection. I've mentioned this a small number of times, but my Wii is in the basement on one end of the house, and the wireless router I have on the floor above on the OTHER side of the house that's infested with cordless phones.

But I'm a hardware n00b so I have many questions.

If I do 40 ft of USB, i found i'm going to be taking many 10' cable extensions and attaching them all together, one end will go in the Wii the other, the Lan Adaptor. $3.99 each, 4 of them, 16$..
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=017118&cid=CAB.833.764
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=001538&cid=CAB.833.764

If I do cat-5... I don't know which brand is good or bad... I am looking at the one Canada Computers sells theirselves.. for $13.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=001516&cid=CAB.815.581
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=001504&cid=CAB.815.581

Longer the connection the more the lag, but I do want it to be as lagless as I can get it given the 40ft gap. Question is, which will have a quicker speeds?
Should I run 40 ft of USB 2.0 or 40ft of cat-5?

also what's the difference between this cross-over and straight network cable?


New Question regarding cat5e cables. (Asked on Oct 4, 2009)

I just found out in my weekly flyers that some place is selling cat5e 50' ethernet cable for just $10! It's 350MHz. Is that a good frequency for using this on the wii?
source: http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=CX0050

On that notice, has anyone got a Rocketfish Lan adaptor? If so, would you be as so kind to share a few words on your thoughts about this product? quality, price, etc.
source: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10124663&catid=
thanks.

 

[Kirby King]

Use Ethernet. USB isn't meant to run that kind of distance (hence your difficulty in finding a sufficiently long USB cable). Also you don't need a crossover cable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable

FWIW, monoprice.com sells Ethernet cables at fairly low prices. (Also in pretty colors!) The catch is shipping may be more than the price of a single cable and I don't know if they ship to Canada or not.

 

[Pr0phetic]

Your better off with a cat5e cable, it goes up to 100ft and like KK said, they're pretty cheap.

 

[A17]

$4.43 (50ft) + $7.10 shipping = $11.53. 10 ft more of wire, but i'd have to wait for it.
$12.99 from a store I can bike to..

thanks for the info, i'll run some ethernet cable instead of USB... but i'd still have to wait for the shipping when i order the lan adaptor

I just hope this router of mine doesn't give me trouble because I dont have any sort of access to it to change firewall settings and stuff.

 

[A17]

New Question regarding cat5e cables. (Asked on Oct 4, 2009)

I just found out in my weekly flyers that some place is selling cat5e 50' ethernet cable for just $10! It's 350MHz. Is that a good frequency for using this on the wii?

On that notice, has anyone got a Rocketfish Lan adaptor? If so, ould you be as so kind to share a few words on your thoughts about this product? quality, price, etc.

source cable: http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=CX0050
source adaptor: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10124663&catid=

thanks.