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Pros & Cons
Pros
It fits nicely in my laptop bag.
Cable is heavy and seems like it will be durable. Might be a little less flexible than some thinner cables. Built thicker to handle higher speeds & more durable to last.
Inside has 4 pair of copper wire with s/ftp (screened shielded twisted pair) shielding. The extra shielding on the cat-8 wires makes the cable slightly thicker, but less prone to damage. The ends are injection molded and include gold plated connectors... Read More
Cons
Even so it is thinner than i like. Extremely difficult to terminate. Connector on one end got stuck in a device.
Highlights
Quality
Shielding and cable ends are very quality.
The gold with the green ends are even quite cool looking.
However, with the 40 gbps and 2000 mhz standards that require cat-8 cable, a few things have changed.
This cable is probably overkill for the short length and lower speeds i am using, but the changes to the standards for the prod... Read More
Price
It was a decent price as well.
Competitiveness
If you have a 10gbps network, and you're sharing files from regular hard drives, you can definitely get by with cat7 cables.
The 3ft cable is well built and performed well on my home network.
We will have to start sharing files from nvme ssds at greater than 10gbps network speeds to even push a cat8 cable (which would... Read More
In addition, the connectors are a snagless design and have plastic covering the tabs.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
great, thick and perfect. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 11.1% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 75 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 14 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As others have discussed cat8 is probably overkill for most people
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Look at it this way the max speed youll get out of the sata iii interface is 6gbs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Cat8 has a theoretical max speed of 40gbps
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We will have to start sharing files from nvme ssds at greater than 10gbps network speeds to even push a cat8 cable which would currently be very expensive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It says it is also backward compatible for cat6 cat5e and cat5
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In addition the connectors are a snagless design and have plastic covering the tabs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I wanted to replace the cable that the internet company installed and use a higher bandwidth cable to know for sure that no cheap stuff was used
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just remember everything only as strong as your weakest link
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