- 10Gbps 5-Color Combo Snagless Cat 6 Ethernet Cable - 5ft, Cat 6 Cable, Cat6 Cord, Ethernet Cord, Multicolored (Black, Blue, White, Green, Red)

[Background] My home was built in 1976. Over the past few years I've enacted major remodels, fixes, and upgrades to our home to bring it into the future. As typical with many homes built pre-1990, only 2 rooms in a 4 bedroom home even had coax cable, which was old and needed replaced. Talking to my contractor, we devised the easiest and most economical plan to install an electronic equipment box in the basement, and run new coax and Cat-5e cables into 7 rooms. The box contains both a Comcast signal replicator, and an 8 port gigabit network switch. I then had a local home network specialist professionally terminate and label all of the cables, button up the boxes, and test all of the Cat-5e connections. Now, the family is no longer constrained by the limitations and weaknesses of WiFi.With a spouse that: 1) remotes into her office 90% of the time from home; 2) a son that is a computer science / mathematics major in college, and a heavy gamer; 3) a 60" smart TV that connects to the internet to stream content from Amazon, Netflix, etc...we absolutely desired to ensure that the Ethernet cables connecting our all-important devices were reliable, and posed no bottlenecks. I could have easily went to Best Buy and purchase a single Ethernet cable that costs more than this pack of 5. However, I am convinced that I would have purchased nothing more than a name, and a pretty package that goes straight into the trash can. I have no problems recommending these Cat6 Snagless cables to connect your most important devices. Each one has proven reliable, provided full transmission, and the termination plugs snap perfectly in place..

Works great, no issues.

***UPDATE: Changing from 1 star to 5. Less than 48 hours after leaving this review CableMatters left a comment telling me to e-mail customer support. I did, and they shipped me a new cable which I have now received. I can understand that manufacturing defects occasionally happen, but if you have the customer service to back it up then all is forgiven. The only thing to note is that since I bought this product not long ago, the price has increased 20% from $10 to $12.***Let me say that this would be a 5 star product if not for a manufacturing defect! 5x 5ft Cat-6 cables for $10 is a great deal, but I only received 4 functional cables! The black one I received seems to have had a molding problem with the black plastic around one of the connectors. This makes it impossible to insert. You can see this my pictures. By the time I noticed this I had already spent 20 minutes behind my TV cabinet and had installed 3. At this point I it isn’t worth the $2 (10/5=2) to me to uninstall the other 3 and send it all back. However, that doesn’t change the fact that I’m disappointed with the quality control on this product.That being said, here are my other thoughts on the cables:The main attraction of these cables for me was the fact that they are cheap, come in a variety of colors, and are Cat-6. The main drawback is that the simple plastic tab over the locking lever is a flimsy design and better disigns exist (but cost significantly more). Since I don’t plan on moving these around (disconnecting and reconnecting) the durability of the locking lever was not a huge concern for me.As for price, I bought 5x 5ft Cat-6 cables for $9.99. Seeing as a single equivalent AmazonBasics cable is $5.49, I’m considering this a good deal.When considering Cat-5 vs Cat-5e vs Cat-6 the real answer is that Cat-5 is slow and dated while Cat-6 is unnecessary unless you are doing very long runs (100+ feet). Therefore, it may sees like Cat-5e is the practical and economical right answer today. I went with Cat-6 because it is slightly more future-proof, but more importantly: when it is this cheap why not? In fact, when I searched for 5 foot Cat-5e cables, none showed up. The funny thing is that Cat-5e only saves you money for long runs, at which point you should be using Cat-6 to reduce crosstalk and preserve speed anyway! Long story short, Cat-5e may seem like the right answer (and use them if you have them) but when buying new, just get Cat-6.

I've not speed tested them, but they appear to work just fine. I had installed a Cat 5E drop about a year ago and just recently had 3 more installed in the house. After that was finished up I realized all my cables were Cat 5. So I decided to buy these to hook up my drop to my NETGEAR GS105 ProSafe 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Desktop Switch (also bought here at Amazon) and then to connect my DVD, TIVO and Slingbox to the switch. Having the multi colors lets me easily trace where each wire goes.No problems with the wires at all. The tab that snaps in when you click it into a network port seemed to be a little flimsy to me, so I'm not sure that these wires would hold up if you needed to constantly plug them in and then unplug them. But for me I've plugged them in and they won't come back out again barring a move or a problem with equipment.The price was also right for these guys.