VIVO Gray 1,000ft Bulk Cat6 Wire, CABLE-V004

First, I'm very new to terminating ethernet cable to keystones and RJ45's. I did a couple practice runs on some cat5E I had laying around and was really irritated that the orange and brown were about a half shade different and very hard to tell apart. The white stripe wires also had only the faintest of color stripe to them as well, so I was not off to a good start and I understood why people bought preterminated cables. I received this cat6 cable and immediately put together a patch cable for practice and was instantly impressed. The cable has good flex to it, a good quality outer sheath, the inner divider is thick enough to work but still easy to cut, and the wire colors are actually easy to see and discern. I appreciate having the option to only buy 250ft as well- not everyone needs a 500 or 1000ft spool! Based on my limited experience, I definitely recommend this cable without reservation.

Great quality and easy to use cable. Fast and durable.

I installed 200 feet of Cat7 cable made by another company and it turned out to be total junk. That has never happened to me before. I could not figure out why my electronics would not work. I finally had to accept the fact that it could be the wire. I was desperate to get my project completed. The good news is I decided to VIVO CAT6 and oh what I difference. I had to repull wire in conduits and this wire with stood the tasks and works perfectly. VIVO has a better sheath and stood up to the re-pull of wire in conduits. It terminates with ease and is easy to add connectors to the ends of the cable. Problems solved.

The cable itself is great. Works well, good thick conductors, very easy to crimp into connectors, all good. But I literally had to rip the entire box apart to get the cable out because it was kinking on itself so aggressively that it wouldn't come out. I could have maybe forced the cable through, but then it would have potentially damaged the wires enough that the whole cable would be compromised. So when you're climbing around in the attic trusting this box to feed you wire when you pull it, you're likely to be disappointed and have to climb all the way back and take the whole box apart and make it look like a baby bear wanted some chocolate left inside it. Aside from the significant inconvenience of the cable not feeding out right, it works great. Used it to run Cat6 through my second floor!

This CAT6 cable is easy to use and seems to be as good quality as any other brand. Price is competitive. Easy to remove jacket and the wires punch down on keystone jacks. Wires have vivid colors helping to make pair ID very easy.

I needed a custom set of cable lengths and bought this product. I crimped multiple cables together and verified everything was trying to negotiate to gigabit speeds if possible, but not matter what I crimped, I never got more than 100mbps using this cable. I crimped a different brand of cable and immediately got gigabit speeds from the crimp. I must have blown through at least 150ft of cabling trying to get these to work, and they just never did. There was always a break in the cable at every segment out of the box. Not sure if I just got a bad box or the build quality of the cable is garbage, but at this point I just wasted every $ I spent buying this brand of cable. Don't waste your money on this garbage, go with something better.

Works great!!

I have used a lot of CAT cable and this one was easy to work with, punch down and put pass through ends on. Only issue was the outer shell could have been a little more robust. Was easy to cut to the point it would continue to split if nicked.

All good

Great cable. It is really easy to work with.

Se compro para realizar una instalación donde el cable iba a quedar expuesto al exterior. No hemos tenido problemas con la velocidad, ni tampoco con intermitencia. El tramo mas largo que se instalo es de 30metros.

This cable is a great cat6 cable. Conductors are solid and wire strips easily only thing is the outter sheilding does not do well with cold? I live in ALberta Canada and when it dips below -20 this cables outter sheilding is brittle and cracks. I know its an indoor cable BUT when you are running lines in a new home that does not have the heat on yet it makes it quite difficult? I gave it 4 stars for that problem. Recommend for a homeowner that needs it for small heated indoor jobs BUT not a contractor that is in the cold for this reason!

Lo unico que no me gusto es que en vez de traer un hilo como casi todos, trae una cruz de plastico que hace mas dificil acomodar los cables para poncharlo y hay que cortar ese plastico, el cable funciona bien y es resistente a jalones