Customer Reviews

BLACK 100FT CAT5 Enhanced CAT5E RJ45 PATCH ETHERNET NETWORK CABLE 100'

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I purchased this cable with the intention of cutting it up and creating several smaller patch cables. This cable is very cheap and no where on the actual cable is it marked as "cat5e" or even "cat5". It contains 8 single very thin wires that are not twisted pairs and not copper. I am pretty sure to call a cable cat5e it must be copper and twisted pair. I do not recommend this cheap cable.

Definition of cat5e:
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I was suspicious of this cable when I received it. The pairs feel thin inside the jacket when squeezing it (they normally fill up the jacket) and the wire does not look like copper when looking at the end of the connector. So I brought it back to work and tested it on a professional cable certifier and wouldn't you know it, it's only capable of 10Mbps! That's cat3 people, 10 Base T, not even 100Mbps which is now becoming less common even with home-grade equipment. Cat5e should be capable of Gig Ethernet, 1000Mbps (1Gbps). This is NOT Cat5e.

DO NOT BUY!

would not at all recommend this cord. It is very thin and did not transfer data at all. bought it to hard wire my Xbox360, did not work at all, even tried it with my laptop pulled no connection at all. Would have returned it if shipping wasn't more then I paid for the cord(should of known then not to buy)

I ordered this cable listed as being Cat 5e- indeed the jacket was marked Cat 5e, but it did not work on Gb ethernet and was slow even running 100 baseT. When I cut open the jacket to inspect the wires within the cable, the problem was obvious- none of the 8 wires within were twisted into pairs, and the conductors were thinner than the 24AWG as marked. FROMWAREHOUSE's PRODUCT WAS A FRAUD. Unfortunately, I had already installed the fromWarehouse cable through walls and ceilings.

Avoid this seller and use an abundance of caution when buying any cable on Amazon. I sent a notice to Amazon legal asking them to ban this seller because continuing fraud. Amazon has done nothing about it thus far, despite having notice and evidence.

If you are looking for a network cable, CAT5 or similar, this is not it. It is not a twisted pair cables, the wire thinner than regular network cable. The external insulation is very thin, and the overall diameter of the cable does not allow to be crimped on a new RJ45 jack - hangs only on the metal crimp at the end of the wire. I cut the cable to fit my needs, and for my surprise, the lose 8 cables inside do not follow the standard network cable color code.

It was a total loss. This product is not what is advertised.

I had a hard time maintaining a gigabit network connection with this cable. I decided to cut it open and found that the wire pairs are just barely twisted together, compared to Belkin cables which have such tight twists that putting a new connector on a cable is a chore. I guess you get what you pay for.

CAT5's are hit-or-miss; this one missed. Signal loss was the issue with my purchase (which was promptly returned).

Amazon was excellent in that the return process was painless; I ended up re-ordering from Cables To Go. Their product cost a couple of bucks more but it was solidly constructed, no tangles, no signal loss, and fast shipping.

You want a product you can trust? Spend the extra couple of bucks to get a product that's going to be dependable down the road.

its only been couple of weeks since i bought the cable, and all the sudden, it stopped working, the cable is not bent, broken or cut, but i think its bad quality

Low cost cable of low quality. The attachement clip broke w/i 2 weeks and the cable frayed shortly after.

It's a cable. It was the length advertised. It was cheap. It works. No visible defects. I'm very satisfied.