MICRO CONNECTORS 500ft Solid Shielded (STP) CAT6A Bulk Ethernet Cable - Gray (TR4-570SHGR-500)

Great cable, seems durable, not too tough to terminate or anything. However, it is rather thick. You can just barely fit 4 of them into a 3/4" conduit, routed through a 1" hole. If you have any tight bends, it will be pretty difficult to route this cable.

This cable is excellent and gave me gigabit speeds with my fiber optic cable modem. Just know that it has a great deal of isolation and insulation material inside the cable that makes it twice as thick as CAT5. The strain relief boots that I had for my Cat5 cable don't fit. This cable won't slip into the opening of the pass- through Cat6e connectors that I bought unless you mash it with pliers and flatten it into an oval. It's great cable but it's at least 2X the difficulty in creating your own cables compared to five CAT5. It's also much thicker coming out of your router (which adds up when you have five cables side-by-side) and less flexible when you try to snake it through an entertainment center.

I just started testing this cable a couple weeks after installing yesterday only to find I was getting 100Mbs - yah, not even 1Gbs. I tried a number of patch cables but no luck, 100Mbs. Then I swapped out my keystones (cheap ones on eBay but 6A rated), still no luck. So I assumed it was this cable. I made a equivalent length cable to what I installed in the wall and put keystones on it and used the same 6A patch cables (purchased at Amazon). I got 1Gbs. I thought it had to be this cable. Then I put RJ45's on both ends using tips I'd bought at Amazon for 6A. Boom, I got 10Gbs from my Mac to my MicroTik switch using the cheapest transceiver I could find on Amazon (note NIC is Aquanta chipset ASUS card that works with Mac Pro). Then I rebooted the Mac Pro into Windows, exact same hardware got 3Gbs to one server and 6Gbs to another (MTU was set to 9000). Windows did auto-negotiate the connection at 10Gb when I looked at network adapters in control panel so look for that if you aren't getting 10Gbs in iperf. It can connect at 10Gb and not deliver in Windows. I made patch cables out of this cable using the tips I'd bought at Amazon and very carefully installed new, but same brand, keystones and everything is working with the cable I installed in the wall at 10Gbs. Now I don't trust anything but this cable!

I ran this cable all over my 4 bedroom house. My office was established downstairs when we moved in and I had conduit run from the bottom floor up to the attic. From there I installed a single drop to every room in the house, plus 3-4 extra lines for cameras and additional backups. The runs went pretty smoothly, but the cable was tough to pull through the conduit. I have about 12 lines running through a single 2 inch conduit. After running about 4 lines, it began to get tough. By the last 2-3 I was really fighting to get it to move a foot at a time. I'm not sure if it was due to the thickness of the cable, or a combination that and the grooves on the cable jacket.The cable:The cable is Cat6A UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair). It's solid copper strands, with a center spline, and a rip cord (which doesn't really help cut the jacket. The jacket is thicker than most cables, and in fact couldn't be stripped with a simple stripper. I had to use another tool to carefully cut the jacket back. The jacket has grooves in it, which is unusual. As for stiffness, this cable is stiff compared to cat6 and cat5e. I would say it's best used for wall runs, and I wouldn't use it for exterior runs if I had a choice. I bought enough to do all my external and internal wall runs, so I'm stuck with it at the moment.A final note. I terminated all those 12 runs into a single wall plate, which made it difficult to flex the cables back into the wall cavity far enough to get the plate mounted on the wall. Thats a note to it's stiffness. It's not a big deal, but I would advise having a good mounting point rather than using a remodel box that just uses drywall. It works, but I fear that my drywall could have given out and made my hole bigger.

I decided to rewire my entire office building, and during that process I placed many orders for ethernet cables from several different sellers on Amazon. This particular item (MICRO CONNECTORS Inc. Cat 6 Solid STP Outdoor 23AWG Bulk Ethernet Cable) stood out to me as being superior in quality to other brands of exterior rated cable I had purchased. The specs printed on the cable were exactly as described and more importantly the specs printed on the cable were exactly what the cable really was. Some of the cable I got from OTHER SELLERS on Amazon WAS VERY QUESTIONABLE (in my opinion at least) as to the accuracy of the item description in comparison to the actual product I received. I give two thumbs to the cat6 cable I got from MICRO CONNECTORS Inc.

After researching options available for my home network, this cable more than met my needs for now and the foreseeable future. While Cat 7 and 8 offer up to 4x more bandwidth, the cost of equipment, energy consumption and length limitations far outweigh the benefits of slightly better speeds. The shielding of this cable offers additional protection against cross interference when run along side ethernet and coax cables.The difficulty with this cable lies mostly with the physical restraints of ethernet plugs which were not designed to handle the larger conductors and cable jacket. Because of the thicker wire, installing the plugs takes patience. since the wires must be positioned into 2 rows to accommodate the thicker gauge wire. After wasting money on several so-called Cat 6a compatible plugs, I settled on the Platinum Tools Ezex48 Shielded RJ45 External Ground Connector. My research shows this is the only plug compatible with this cable. There are many options for jacks. For my install, I had success with the TRENDnet Shielded Cat6A RJ45 Keystone Jack.Due to cable stiffness, it is important to avoid introducing twists when installing. This is solved by building a simple spool holder out of scrap plywood. (see photo).

How much can you say about cable? It did the job for what we needed so we were happy with it.

The price likely gives it away, but this is NOT STP cable as advertised. Only the outer jacket is shielded with foil, not the pairs. Still an okay cable, just not what it claims to be.Update: After trying to run this cable through conduit, it's very apparent that the company had no intention of providing a decent product. The outer shearing was stripped away completely.I do not recommend that anyone buy this cable for any reason.

Vable does not function as Cat6a. The gauge of the internal wires is too thin so Cat6a keystone jacks do not work. Completely disappointed. Made me look like an idiot with clients and ended up costing me money.

El cable es perfecto y tal cual como se describe. El precio es el justo, ni muy barato ni muy caro pero la comodidad de que te traigan la bobina hasta tu casa lo vale. Un cable perfecto para hacer un cableado interno aunque yo lo usé para cableado externo es decir para pasarlo por el jardín, ya lleva así como 8 meses y no me ha causado ningún problema, supongo que su apantallado interno doble debe ayudar en caso de que se corroa la capa externa. Por ahora cumple con las velocidades propias del estándar. Completamente recomendado.Adicionalmente yo recomendaría conseguir unos Rj45 blindados de una sola pieza, yo conseguí unos de 2 piezas (una interna que supuestamente ayuda a organizar los pares) pero me dieron muchos dolores de cabeza.

Contrairement à ce qui est écrit, ce n'est pas un câble Catégorie 6A mais tout simplement un Catégorie 6.Trop cher pour un catégorie 6 seulement

Solicité este producto y llegó como es anunciado, y se siente con alta calidad, me incliné por este producto por ser 100 cobre, en vez de combinación con aluminio. El recubrimiento parece que puede ser para exterior pero igualmente usé un tubo galvanizado para extra protección. no es fácil manejarlo en esquinas a 90 grados, pero en todo lo demás es muy recomendable.