Cat5e Riser Unshielded

Cat5e cable. Works as expected. It's solid copper, not CCA.

Cat5E has been out there a while. I normally buy this in 1,000 foot rolls at a time. It was a sturdy cable and was easy to work with while running line. It carried the signal just fine with no issues. Sometimes you can get the wires crossed during end crimping. I think that is something normal that many of us do. It is just part of being a human and trying to get the job done quickly as possible. That is what line testers are for, right? It turned out to be a good cable.

I will always love that it has the remaining length printed onto the cable itself. Makes it easier to cut specific lengths that customers request and quote them a price based on that.

I built 3 cable for my IP camera using this wire. The ones that are 30ft or less work fine. The one that is 60 ft doesn't work. I can't connect to the camera because the link quality is so low. When I ping it, I only get 25 to 50% reply. No, it's not the camera because I tried it with a 2 different cameras and they behaved the same. So don't buy this cable if you plan long network cable run. Update 5/6/19 Updated to 5 stars. I found out why the 60 foot cable doesn't work. I used only half of the twisted green wire for network and half for DC power by mistake. That was why there was too much noise on the network and hence lost half of the pings. I started over with twisted orange and green pair for ethernet and the twisted brown and blue for power and my IP camera worked fine.

Nice box of cable. It pulls easily enough and I haven't seen any knots. Signal quality is good so far.

I noticed this wire is more flexible than others and really a pain to install connectors. At first I thought it was stranded wire but stripped off a couple to see and it was solid copper. Keep this in mind when installing connectors and such.

The cables are solid copper, I never use cca. Cable is easy to work with and terminate. Love this stuff. I use this color when i'm running cable for surveillance cameras to differentiate from network data cables that are usually blue, white or grey and fire and alarm cable are run in red. When i go into a place where I've run cables I know instantly which are mine. Love the separation of colors.

I use a box or two a year working with students (making patch cables etc). This brand of cable has worked well for me punching down to old 110 and 66 blocks as well as direct RJ45 connectors. The insulation on inner wires is well colored and easy to see (I've had some other types have semi translucent insulation that makes green and blue hard to distinguish as well as stripped vs unstripped - tough on new learners).

I love it very much! Every install that I did worked on the spot. Very high end quality product! I recommend this to anyone!