🐱 Monoprice Cat6 Ethernet Patch Cable - Industrial Electrical Solution Review

As I prepared to work from home during the coronavirus crisis, I needed a good ethernet cable to connect a phone sent to me by my company was made available. The Cat6 cable they loaned me was a regular thick blue patch cord. The problem was that I didn't have enough length to get from the power supply to my desk at home. Looking for a solution I saw a thin cable from Monoprice in different sizes. I bought a 30 foot white cord (to better match my white walls). I managed to thread the cord from…

We have used many of these cables and replaced all patch panel cables with them. I like plugs with built in boot and how the whole plug glows from the light on the switches or network adapter. However, we just spent half a day troubleshooting a network performance issue for one of our home workers, only to find that the 50-foot cable was out of spec. We only got about 3MB/s over the cable and kept suspecting a defective switch, the IPS. Software or VPN. A home user bought this type of cable on…

I have purchased this cable many times and also installed it in my walls over a year ago based on the CMR rating . I noticed that there is no CM or CMR rating listed on the case. I've always seen this printed on nominal cables in the past. However, there is a UL rating (E467139) printed on the jacket. I looked up the code on the UL website and this is the certification used for both CM and CMR cables. Both codes are for walls. I used a UL search that doesn't require an account, so I can't break