Hi, didnt really know where to put this, but here goes. I'm looking to buy a long 50-100m spool of Gigabit Ethernet Cable, and wanted to know if anyone had any recommendations for a good e-retailer. Cheers
For CAT5 I have always used Kenable.co.uk, you even get a choice of colours: http://www.kenable.co.uk/?cPath=22_122_123. Very reliable e-tailer. I've also used these guys but only once, they were fine: http://www.network-cabling.co.uk/store/index.php.
Try to avoid random ebay Merchants. I've had cables that are marked as cat5e but aren't up to the standard. They only ran at 100mb rather than 1Gb on my gigabit switch. The cable itself was also flimsy and fell apart within a week. Admittedly, they are only about £1.50 for 20m or so... Just a note of caution.
can someone tell me the difference between these 3, and the price difference? http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=22_122_123&products_id=5205 http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=22_122_123&products_id=5412 http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=22_122_123&products_id=1401 cheers
I imagine the first one is a thinner cable than the second, both of these are copper clad aluminium (cheaper but not ideal) the last is solid copper, which is much better and more likely to give gigabit
