Shielded Direct Burial Outdoor Phone Review

Based on the rating and the high price, I thought this would be a very good cable for my internet connection with a phone jack. The operator didn't like this because of the stranded (not solid) wires. Oddly enough, the mice love it. It's been chewed in half twice already. I hate throwing something this expensive in the trash, but here it is.

My DSL doesn't work with this cable. My first problem was that this cable is connected as a crossover cable. After I fixed this problem, the DSL often had connection problems. As soon as I swapped out the regular phone cord, the DSL problems went away. This cable uses stranded CAT5e cable and I'm not sure if that's part of the problem. Anyway, my cable is useless.

I used this phone cord to run straight from a phone company jack under my house to a router in my living room. I used to have constant dropouts and other problems from interference in the old wiring. After installing this telephone cable, all these problems disappeared. The connection type might confuse you as it says "RJ11/RJ12". RJ11 is the standard phone cord, while RJ12 has an extra wire for businesses with multiple phone lines. Both ends of this cable are RJ12 phone jacks with an extra…