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Pros & Cons
Pros
Purchased 5’ to replace older cat 5e cables and to migrate to 10g networking. Mounted all my internet devices on a board. These conect all the infrastructure devices (modem, firewall, managed switch, and poe devices) bandwidth is perfect.
Work great, and have not seen any performance issues or degradation. Cables feel like they are well manufactured. No complaint at all from these cables.
Cons
Plastic tabs on nearly all of the original order are busted off on at least one end. The poe waterproof cap is not able to stop over because of the rj-45 male end it is a 1/16th bigger than a standard rj- 45 preventing the end cap from sliding over th... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Very sturdy quality construction with metal fittings.
I liked the especially the connector build quality.
5g network and kept having horrible throughput and random dropouts, even caused the router i had to reboot.
Nothing has pulled loose and no bad or intermittent connections.
Price
The price was right for these cables and it was exactly the number i needed.
Easy to order, fairly priced and i don't have to worry if i lose a couple on a job
Also decent price for what you get.
These would be my suggested pick, especially for the price.
Shipping
Cable matters has consistently shipped exactly what i ordered in a timely manner.
They arrived a day early, and after connecting everything, i ran an internet speed test on the media pc in my setup and found o... Read More
Used for data center, ran out of cables and was too lazy to order from company, plus amazon delivered next day.
Packaging/appearance
While the package stated that it contained 5 - 3ft cables it actually contained one cable that appears to be 100 ft long.
This is as described and as it is packaged, i could not see how it would get damaged in transport.
Nominal increase in transfer speeds, but packet loss appears to be lower.
Competitiveness
I compared these to the vandesail cat7 flat cables and the mediabridge cat6 cables (although their specs would indicate they to... Read More
My measurements have indicated much better shield continuity (though not always perfect) than one of the alternatives here on this site.
I will need to run a series of iperf tests to get a better gauge on real numbers.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 2,194 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 16 2024.
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There is a plastic smell when first opening them but it looses the smell after airing out a bit
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Fished cables thru attic between walls etc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im getting close to gb speed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At first i was using various ethernet cables in my home network that ive collected over the years and would get spotty performance when viewing 4k or transferring large files between computers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I knew i would eventually upgrade the equipment like nic and switch but didnt want the old various cables to be the weak link literally
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Build quality is stellar not terribly overpriced
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Bought a pack of 5 of the 1ft 5ft and 10ft
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Have a cheap 10gb switch between my file server and gaming computer
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