Cable Matters 10Gbps 5-Pack Snagless Short Shielded Cat 6A Ethernet Cable - 3ft, Cat 6A Cable, Cat6A Cord, Ethernet Cord, Black

These are really nice cables. According to the lights on my router, they can handle at least 2.5G, they are fairly thick and a little on the stiff side. They plug and unplug very smoothly, and overall feel very high quality. The snag-less design feels good and should be effective. The 1ft cables even came packaged in a long box, i.e. not bent. Glad I returned some cheaper ones and went with these!

As an individual who has worked with as well as hand made network cables in industrial applications throughout my career, I can say that the cables I received were well made, of good quality, had a great price, and for the particular application these were purchased for, it made more sense to purchase a pack of pre-made cables for uniformity and appearance. To date, they have performed flawlessly.

I've been slowly replacing all my Cat5 with Cat6a cables, or rather, just buying Cat6a cables like these instead. The price difference, if any, is negligible, so there's not really any reason not to. Yes, Cat 5E is still plenty for most any household as most service providers only provide up to 1Gb anyways. But 2.5Gb is coming along, and if you have an intranet you likely having 2.5 or 10Gb speeds, and thats where Cat6a comes in. It's also nice to have the shielded cables. EMF really isnt a thing outside of a datacenter, but it certainly isn't going to hurt to have it. So even with my short runs, on things that wont even saturate the connection, I've been getting these Cat 6a cables. Future proofing isnt a thing, but you'll be getting more for your money today if you buy these, instead of Cat5e cables. And with that said, you dont need to buy Cat8 cables. That would be a waste of your money at this time. Unless you intend to hide the cable behind a wall without the ability to access it ever again and you want to "futureproof" that connection, then maybe. But I digress. For basically any other application, this is the cable spec you want.

Great quality cables!!!

Works as intended with speed as advertised. 10 feet is a lot shorter than you'd expect, but was perfect for my use cases.

Very sturdy quality construction with metal fittings. I docked a star because in my 5-pack one was only 3' but that was OK as I had a use for it. The Cat 6a is overkill, but I ran a 75-foot line to my basement and wanted bandwidth for multiple devices. I mostly wanted it for the quality construction.

Well built works great.

Purchased these to patch in the multiple ports on my Dell R630 home server. Works well.