069-561/CMXT

Great Quality! I got this because of the many lairs and its shielded. For the price cant beat it. I live in Washington state so i wanted water proof and its ran outside as I have ran my own cable for a 2 story house many runs under the house and a run up to the attic that drops down to a switch up there.I have a switch on each floor. also ran a fresh cable from pole to my modem and now no signal loss this is shielded with foil, plastic and material on-top the UV outer jacket. And has drain wire so be sure to use shielded termination on cat6 RJ45 or punch down. If you do not correctly ground the drain wire you are not using this cable to its full potential.I am very happy with perches even if it was more then I needed. This is definitely industrial quality great if running a trunk cable to a switch in another building, outside or direct burial, or if you live in a wet area or you just want to make sure your infrastructure is set for a 10GB network if you have the hardware to support it 10bGb switches and network cards for your servers and devices.FYI those are expensive by the way like $1k+ for switches and $200- $300 for a NIC if you are thinking of a local LAN.

First of all this is a high quality cable. Excellent build quality and great performance. I made some long runs about 200 feet through buried pvc conduit. It pulled easily enough using a metal fish tape. Pulling 200 ft through 180 degrees of turns was a beast though! Anyways, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND terminating this cable using a punch down or keystone. I used some punch-down CAT6a keystones that worked great. I also made a couple pulls to some POE wireless bridge APs and terminated those using RJ45 jacks. It was nearly impossible! It took me about 20 minutes per jack to terminate. Don't even bother trying to get the jacket into the connector. Just get it as close as you can and make sure you don't have any shielding hanging out.

I was running wired Cat6 from the basement up to the top floor, and could not run it through the house; I needed something to run up the side. Other online electrical supply stores wanted ridiculous prices, so I found this and purchased it. The price was reasonable and it is outdoor rated, including direct burial and UV rated. I bought this and then sold the remainder to a co-worker who wanted to run wired Ethernet out to his "barn" (really a mancave), which he buried to run out there. Been using for a couple of years and no visible degradation due to UV so far. It is much thicker wire which was a little difficult to terminate, but in the end it worked as needed and the sturdiness leads me to believe it will last.

I do cat 6 wiring for a living. The connectors that I have used for years, do not fit on this cable. (As if the individual wires have a heavier insulation.) Before anyone tells me to use some specific connectors, I'll just point out that cat6 connectors are supposed to fit cat 6 cables. It's that simple. They standardize this stuff so that you don't have to worry about it.

this product works, the only issue I had with this when running at 250 ft, had some bad kinks, as the shielded outer core is soft, but everything works just fine, as the wires are 23 gauge, Takes a bit of effort terminating ends on these with specific ground shielded RJ45 connectors, but once you get a hang of that it's good cable, to be protected from any sort of interference, But I still ran it with clean network cable coming in and out via surge protector. Anymore you have to do this to protect electronics.

Outside sheathing kinks easier than I expected, not sure if it is still waterproof in those sections but the inside cable remained in tact. Overall, I am glad I went with this brand, and the suggested plug ends that other reviewers mentioned.

Stiff enough you can almost push it through your conduit, but flexible enough to work for pretty tight pulls. Make sure you get ends big enough for the diameter of this cable. And use plenty of pulling lube if you plan to make any tight turns in conduit.

I am impressed, this seems to be very good quality cable. Most of it is buried, we'll see how well the other two do this summer.