In my experience, on new installs cat5e is still more common than 6.
What I was trying to say way above was there's no guarantee TX spec cabling will have more than two pair. Being that copper is expensive... Sure, we hope they're wired for poe or whatever, but many networks would never notice the difference. Wouldn't work well for 8-conductor telephone duty.
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