VIVO 500ft Bulk Cat6 Wire, CCA Ethernet Cable, 23 AWG, UTP Pull Box, LAN Network, Gray, CABLE-V006

I've used the VIVO 500ft Bulk Cat6 Wire across multiple projects, including building out an IP camera system with PoE, setting up a small office network for my UAW local, and wiring a few home projects — and I’ve had zero issues.The quality of the cable is solid, it pulls cleanly from the box without snags, and termination is smooth with standard Cat6 connectors. Performance-wise, it delivers reliable speed and signal integrity, even over longer runs. For the price point, you’re getting excellent value.

I installed 200 feet of Cat7 cable made by another company and it turned out to be total junk. That has never happened to me before. I could not figure out why my electronics would not work. I finally had to accept the fact that it could be the wire. I was desperate to get my project completed. The good news is I decided to VIVO CAT6 and oh what I difference. I had to repull wire in conduits and this wire with stood the tasks and works perfectly. VIVO has a better sheath and stood up to the re-pull of wire in conduits. It terminates with ease and is easy to add connectors to the ends of the cable. Problems solved.

Just retrofitted my old house with ethernet. Had one run that was 150 ft... no problem!No problem snaking through wallsNo problem snaking through underground conduit. I had to really pull on this during that (used a pulley on one end). It held up well.Easy to strip the outer shieldInner pairs seem good quality. When making the RJ45 connectors patience is required but the wires can be individually shaped to allow them to line up in neat row. Then give them all a straight haircut, insert and voila!Every cable I ran was successful. Zero problems!Seems to get the advertised speeds just fine. One run probably 50 to 75ft got 900mbps download speed (ethernet direct)! Even the 150ft run got me 400 to 500mbps to a remote wifi base station and my phone.Only thing I can't test... will the mice like to eat it? Time will tell!

I was in a rush when I ordered this, and thought I had gotten a great deal on pure copper cable. Be warned, this is copper clad aluminum, meaning exactly that: a core wire of aluminum with a thin copper layer on the outside. Technically, referencing “CAT6” is misleading, as it does not technically conform to that spec. Nothing on the box mentions CCA once you get it. CCA *does* appear in the title of the product, but may be missed by people like me that didn’t even know it was a thing (this is the shame on me part, I should have noticed and researched).Why is this bad? If you’re using it for POE applications (which I am), CCA has high resistance and potentially bad side effects (I’ll let you search for what they could be). Even if you aren’t using it for POE, it has bad signal qualities (look up various test results available). I don’t believe this cable is certified for any commercial application, so if you bought it to save your client money, I’d recommend against using it.Unfortunately, I now need to re-wire my home cabinet that I just spent considerable time doing with this cable, replacing it with a certified pure copper product from another company.Don’t be cheap like I was, pay attention and order a quality product from someone else, even if it does cost 2x the amount.

The cable itself is great. Works well, good thick conductors, very easy to crimp into connectors, all good. But I literally had to rip the entire box apart to get the cable out because it was kinking on itself so aggressively that it wouldn't come out. I could have maybe forced the cable through, but then it would have potentially damaged the wires enough that the whole cable would be compromised. So when you're climbing around in the attic trusting this box to feed you wire when you pull it, you're likely to be disappointed and have to climb all the way back and take the whole box apart and make it look like a baby bear wanted some chocolate left inside it. Aside from the significant inconvenience of the cable not feeding out right, it works great. Used it to run Cat6 through my second floor!

It was a great price for bulk Cat6 wiring. It was easy to pull out and terminate the ends. Every connection was successful and I have not had any issues with the wires I ran 2 years ago. The only problem I had was one that I terminated a wire in the wrong order which was easy to fix.

If you are looking for a smaller amount of quality cable, but bulk, like I needed with the 250', this is going to get you there and save you some money in the process. The wires all work as expected for Cat6. For my uses so far, I get 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps no problem well within spec distance at around 40', and 10Gbps well within spec distance at around 10'.It's cable, it's got wires that work, a nice core, and a good price. You need Cat6? This will give you what you need.

I have used a lot of CAT cable and this one was easy to work with, punch down and put pass through ends on. Only issue was the outer shell could have been a little more robust. Was easy to cut to the point it would continue to split if nicked.