[K12OSN] Understanding ethernet - terminology and cables

[Gary Frederick]

Howdy,

The recent conversation helped me to finally understand why I want the 
faster ethernet speeds between my servers and the switches.

Now I'm trying to understand the different terminology and what works 
where when hooking it up.

There is
  10Base-T
  100Base-T
  1000Base-T
and
  Gigabit

Is Gigabit just another name for 1000Base-T?

and I looked at cables and there were cables for
   Cat 5e
   FastCat 5e
   Cat 6
   Cat 6 UTP

???

and

I am able to handle a screw driver - on a realy good day and would 
prefer to get a cable that was already built over messing up. Should I 
consider learning how to make cables?

Thanks,

Gary