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Review on 🐱 High-Speed Cat6 Ethernet Cable - 50 Ft Length, Complete with Clips for Easy Installation by Dipp Samrock

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great cable at a great price and even comes with cable clamps!

I wish I could give this item SIX stars out of 5 just to show how pleased I am, but as I can't rate it outside of the chart my rating has to make happen. I bought this to replace a cable that my pup was chewing on as the optical relay box and my router can't be in the same room due to logistical reasons (i.e. the router has to be in the same room as the set- top box, which isn't in the same room as the relay box) so the only option I have that doesn't involve a mess of wireless wired repeaters/switches and such is running Cat5 from the relay to the router. When I originally routed the cable that this one replaced, I didn't have cable clips to attach it to the wall, and because it was a round cable, it had to be routed *under* the door and then propped against the wall. So I used some tape to attach it to the wall. My pup decided to grab the cord where it comes out from under the door, pull it out and then chew it through. So this cable was purchased as a replacement as it is flat and fits well through a door. I was planning on going to the hardware store to buy some clamps to attach to the door frames and walls, but lo and behold THEY WERE INCLUDED WITH A CABLE! This cable was the perfect length, the perfect thickness, the perfect shape and it came with a wall mount. I don't think I've ever been happier with a plain cable. And the price was GREAT! Edit: 2 years later and she's still going strong. It runs from the ONT to the pfSense server/router, which then connects to the switch. I'm getting a solid 1 Gb/s (which is shocking in itself as ISPs rarely deliver the actual advertised speeds you pay for) and anyone claiming this cable can't deliver more than 40-50 Mb/s , has some other problems with him network. Ethernet offers a constant speed depending on your network card. The only difference in the cable is the *quality* of the signal. If you have a 1Gbps NIC connected to the second one with Cat5e, you will get *1Gbps between them UNTIL you exceed 50 meters. With Cat6, you can achieve 1 Gb/s at around 100 meters (300 feet) and 10 Gb/s at 55 meters (165 feet), so this 50-foot Category 6 cable can't deliver less than the LOWEST network speed with the it is connected. . Poor quality cables can result in increased latency, packet loss, etc., but the Ethernet specification only works in a specific way. You either get a signal or you don't. If the signal does not have the expected speed, then either one of the network cards is not rated for the required speed, your router/switching device is not working OR you have some other bottleneck, e.g. B. Waiting for a download speed of 80 GB / from 6.0. Gbps hard drive. (Or you don't know the difference between gigabit and gigabyte and expect 1Gbps to be 1 gigabyte per second when it's actually 0.125 gigabytes per second.) Either way, this cable either works or it doesn't. If it works but you're not getting the speed you want, troubleshoot your network as the cable isn't the problem.

Pros
  • Cables and Connectors
Cons
  • A newer model could have been selected