Customer Reviews for Southwire 500 ft. Blue 23/4 Solid CU CAT6 CMR (Riser) Data Cable

prefect for google fiber

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I expect better quality.

Just what we needed to get our church properly set up to live stream during the Covad19 pandemic. Good diameter size of internal connectors made it better to crimp cat5 connectors.

This was just the ticket to set up internet connection for my home office. High quality product.

This is a good cable that is easy to use.

nothing overall on this. Its data wire. One thing that I was supprised at is that Home depot sells the wire but not the cat6 connectors to go with them. They only had the cat5 connectors. The cat5 connectors may or may not work, 50/50 shot on this out of 3 cables I ran only one worked with the cat5 plugs. Had to order plugs over the internet and wait a week to get them. Really put my project at church behind.

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Wasn’t enough and needed to buy another box at another location nearer the job site.

It was good quality. However the sting was worthless at stripping the cable jacket.

Excellent

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Would recommend for installing a network in your home. Do your research to see if CAT6 is necessary for your needs. CAT6 is over kill for most and costs about 15% more than CAT5e. Product is as advertised. Pulls easily through walls.

Can't run at 1GB/sec Can't believe the amount of time and money I wasted buying this wire. Pulled a 60ft run and can only run 100Mbit/sec. I've been making 1GB cables for years and know how to do it, but this wire can't handle the speed. First, there's no separator between the pairs as other Cat6 cables, second, the ORANGE pairs have more than twice the twist of the BLUE pair. Looks like the BLUE pair is CAT5. Don't waste your money on this cheap cable and spend a few bucks more and get it working the 1st time

Good cable, easy to use

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I bought this to wire 8 POE cameras in the attic. Much better quality than cat5e and not too much more expensive. This is solid copper wire. Only negative is there is no spline to separate the 4 twisted pairs, but not a deal breaker for me. I used cat6 pass through connectors which made things easier. All cameras up and running with no problems at all. Highly recommend this wire, just recommend the pass through connectors and crimp tool as the wires are nice and solid, but somewhat stiff. Found that using needle nose pliers to untwist the twisted pairs was the easiest, and also straightened out the wire so I could put the connector on.

To me this is like a cat5e cable. The twists doesn't appear to be tighter than a cat5e cable and it lacks the plastic separator designed to stop crosstalk in the twisted pair. The only thing that I do think that makes it more like a cat6 is that the wires are a bit thicker than cat5e cables

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Copper wires is thicker than Cat5e and so offer lower cross-talk, higher signal-to-noise ratio, and are compatible for 10GBASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet) Cat6 cables provide performance speeds up to 250MHz. Cat5 cables in contrast, only provide speeds up to 100 MHz

It worked for what I wanted it for.

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A decent quality network cable from a well-known wire and cable manufacturer. Normally, brick-and-mortar businesses (Literally brick and mortar in Home Depot's case ;) ) don't give the best price deals over online retailers, but this product is an exception. Most online network cable at this price is the electrically and mechanically inferior copper covered aluminum cable, but this cable is pure copper.

Cable pulled from box with ease.

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It is what i expected it to be..

Easy to pull. Functioned as advertised.

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