Review on High-Quality UL Listed in-Wall Rated Cat6 Bulk Cable - 1000 Feet, Black by James Small

This is a high quality CAT6 cable. I used it to make all the connections on my home network while remodeling my house. Combine this with some keystones and borders and you can make some very clean media panels in any room. I made sure I bought "wall mounted, durable" as the other options are for other or commercial purposes. Since the wire itself is very good, there is not much to say on the subject. I can advise those who are rewiring their house and using this cable in the walls and attic. Remember that the main thing that defines this cable as CAT6 with a higher rating than CAT5 is the central part of the insulation that prevents EMI in the parallel running twisted pairs in the cable. You've paid a lot of extra money for CAT6 over 5, so don't defeat built-in protection by introducing external sources of electromagnetic interference: avoid running this cable near electrical romex or outlets if possible. Never operate your CAT6s parallel to power lines. At some point, you might have to walk next to a power line or two, so be sure to make it perpendicular like a cross. Be sure to attach the harnesses with soft plastic clips or MADE FOR CAT6 insulated clips. Do not use standard metal Romex clips. You can easily find something similar at your local BigBox store: http://amzn.com/B007TMYTK4 Try not to leave extra cord to coil up. Measure twice and cut what you need to the correct length as coiling can also cause electromagnetic interference. Try installing CAT6 boxes in a different section of the wall than any outlets to get a little EMI shielding, using pins and firewalls as a barrier. Be very careful when removing the outer plastic cover. You ONLY want to score it, DON'T CUT ALL THE WAY. You want to take a test piece of THIS cable and set the marking tool up to scratch the jacket very slightly and then you can pull from the outside until it snaps out along the cut line. You should see white stretched material surrounding the cut. If you want to be extra careful, score and pull on the peel, then use an inner cord to pull and trim another 2 inches of the peel. Cut all of the wire where you scored it the first time so there is NO CHANCE of accidentally cutting the twisted pair insulation. There are many videos on Youtube explaining how to route, pull, strip and connect CAT6 so give yourself an hour to plan. and training. Your results will benefit greatly. Here are the consumables I used to build my media infrastructure: Keystone Boards = Shaxon BM303WP4-B, 4-Port Single Gang Keystone White Wallplate and Shaxon BM303WP6-B, 6-Port Single Gang White Keystone Blank Keystone Wallplate = Shaxon BM303WIN- 10- B, Blank Keystone Insert - White, Keystone Mounting Bracket, 10 pcs. = Arlington LV1-10 Low Voltage Mounting Bracket, 1-Way, Black, 10 pcs, Cat6 Keystone = Cable Matters®, 25 pcs Cat6 RJ45 Keystone White Jack and Keystone Drop Stand HDMI Keystone = HDMI Keystone Adapter, Wallplate Latch, White Coax Keystone = Leviton 40831-BW QuickPort F-Type Adapter, Gold Plated, White Cat6 Cable = Cable Matters® In-Wall Rated (cm) Blue Cat6 Ethernet Cable 1000 ft. Coaxial Cable = Southwire 56918445 500 ft. Quad Shield RG 6/U 18 AWG- Type Coax Cable Black Right Angle Coax Adapter = Cable Matters® 10-Pack Gold Plated F-Type RG6 Right Angle Coax Adapter Wall Mount Patch Panel = Tripp Lite N250-012 1 Cat6 2-Port Wall Mount Vertical 110-pin Patch Panel Cat6 Crimp Connector (apparently for stranded wire ONLY) = C&E Cat6, Cat5e Crimp Connectors, 50 pcs. Strain Relief Boots = CableWholesale RJ45 Blue Strain Relief Boots, 50/pk (SR-8P8C-BL) Crimp Tool = TRENDnet 8P/RJ-45 and 6P/RJ-12 Crimp, Trim, and Strip Tool RJ-11 Punch Tool TC-CT68 = Cable Matters® Coax -Punch Tool with 110 Blade Crimp Tools = Valley Enterprises 30-Pack PPC-EX6XL RG6/RG6 Quad F Compression Coax Connector Kit Plug w/ Tool and Stripper UPDATE 01/17/2016. Cat6 lines throughout the house, it would be advisable to run two lines to each location. To be honest, it would be unwise NOT to do this. 1) You can't have too many home network connections, especially in a world where even toasters and refrigerators are "smart" devices. 2) There was no telephone in my house. Lines run along the walls. Instead, I ran a telecoms ax down the baseboards and slipped them under the edge of the carpet. As a fickle millennial, I don't need a landline, so I got rid of all those ugly RJ11 lines stapled to baseboards and instead ran two CAT6 lines along the walls to each location. There is no difference between RJ11 and RJ45 (that's an Ethernet jack for those too lazy to google) in terms of cable other than the fact that Cat.6 has 8 wires while typical phone lines only have 4 wires . In terms of telephone performance, a copper wire is a copper wire, so each Category 6 line can be considered the equivalent of two telephone lines. quick-witted? If you ever need a phone line, you can easily convert one of your lines to CAT6 by just plugging four jacks into an RJ11 connector and BOOM, you're back to the late 1980's! In fact, this can be very handy in situations like the need to install a ground wire for a security system. I am very happy that my review was useful to many people. Several people have emailed me questions personally, so I thought it would be helpful to include a few good links in my review that explain how to terminate CAT6 cable: Again, you've read over 1000 words about it by now, how to wire your home network . So who are we kidding, you're a nerd! Take it! Good luck and keep asking questions! UPDATE 2016-03-22: I noticed that I'm using CAT6 connectors, which are designed for stranded wire, not solid. Only now did I even find out since someone emailed me about it. So far my network lines are working fine, but I think technically they're only CAT5E due to this error? Basically, at some point I'll go back and replace a couple of the connectors I've crimped with ones that accept solid CAT6 wire. They should look like this: Cable Matters, 2 per box Category 6 modular plug with termination bar for single core cables, 100 per box. This is not a product endorsement as I have not personally used it. I just wanted to include a reference link so you can see the difference. UPDATE 6/26/2019: This wire is still working. Good that my house has everything that is possible. I recently added a POE camera system to my house using Amcrest POE cameras and a Gigabit POE switch and this cable is perfect. Zero problems in almost 5 years of service.