Read many reviews here. I've seen all the negatives and I genuinely think these people are just trying to hang up this cable. I ordered a 10m cable. I did a speed test on my laptop which is two weeks old. Monoprice's Cat8 cable had a download speed of 490MB and an upload speed of 31.6MB. Not bad but not what my internet should see as my package needs to be increased by at least 800 to 1GB. So I hooked up a 10 foot cable and ran a test. Thinking I'd be disappointed (first because the MONOPRICE cable is about 2 times bigger and the wire is bigger), I didn't want to see the results, but I had to. Test 830MB download with 35.4 download. Test two 890MB downloads with 34.1 download. I was impressed but didn't believe the numbers. The final test resulted in a download of 868 MB and an upload of 35.8 MB. Really impressed and can't believe other cables that cost twice as much don't deliver the performance of this cable. I'm about to order some for work.