Multi-cable Networking 20m Cat5E outdoor Direct Burial Ethernet Cable with RJ-45 Plug - FTP - CCA - Black - 20 meter

I bought this to provide a wired CCTV link to an area not covered by Wi Fi. I ran it 55 meters to the building and it works fine, I intend to bury the cable in the ground at some point so I can’t comment on how it performs and lasts underground, but so far, so good. I did notice that one of the plastic end caps that protects the terminals had come loose and I struggled to clip it back in place, but don’t be put off by that. Looks great quality and for the price I’m very pleased.

I bought this as I decided to give up on years of wireless repeaters. Drilled some holes to follow the Virgin Media cable out of the house and back under the floor (the virgin router is in the office in the loft conversion). I cut the cable about 1m from the end so that it could be threaded through the 12mm holes I drilled. Spliced the end back on when i got it into the required room downstairs. Easy to do and just needs to be done carefully to ensure that there is minimal signal loss. cutting the cable showed that there is a plastic sleeve outside the main cable which must be what gives it the outside protection. The cable inside consisted of 4 twisted pairs. I had expected a spine of plastic running down the middle of the cable but it wasn't there. I must have seen that in another cable I considered.Tested the connection once all installed and the speed in the new room was the same as being connected directly to the ethernet port on the virgin router so no noticeable signal loss.Connected to a new wireless router in the downstairs room and we've now got 70-90Mb where the repeaters/powerline units would give 10Mb at best and often 2-3Mb. Happy family and I can go back to playing with my guitar undisturbed.

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I went for this deal, as my old tool for RJ45 connectors is worn-out, and this deal offered both the cable and the tool.What I needed most was the cable for outdoor use, and the cable is great. It has a double sheath, and you have to trim back the outer one for the cable to fit in a standard RJ45, as it would be too thick otherwise.The tool supplied however is NOT the one pictured on the product when I bought it. The one they showed was the cheap "single" type (with red handles).What arrived was the normally more expensive "double" type (with green handles). The tool however is completely useless, as the RJ45 connector does not go into the tool far enough. It hits the end stop before the pins align with the comb for pressing. Also RJ45 connectors have a snap-in to lock the cable in place, this does not align properly either.It is possible to crimp with the connector inserted from the wrong side, but this crushes the retaining clip, which then needs stretching back into place.I may be able to modify the tool to make it work, but I will allow a while for the seller to read and respond first.Also supplied was a cable stripper (yellow thing in pictures). This is a great tool which dies it's job without affecting the cable cores.I have not used the cable ties, but they were supplied as advertised.

Bought to replace a cable an electrician damaged - quick delivery and reasonable price delivered at the weekend to ensure we had wifi without the need to wait for the specialist suppliers to open on a monday

Great product works well, using outdoors.

Heard all about the bad press that CCA cable gets, decided to try this out after reading about the SKIN EFFECT that wires use; where signal is transmitted on the outer surface of a conductor rather then the inside of the conductor. since the outer surface of the conductor is copper I thought to myself it should work as normal cable. Low and behold ran the full box of cable and I am getting full transmission speed, I have a 240mb package with my ISP this wire can handle it plus gigabit connection to my other wired devices with only 4ms of latency..In my research I also heard that aluminium wire is prone to snapping, sometimes inside the wire itself, I didn't have that problem.Full stars will do the job for normal house wiring, dont listen to the perfectionists who think they need server grade performance.

This is great value for money cable in my opinion. We have thick walls and poor wireless throughout the house and despite having a full rewire the speed using powerline adapters was poor at around 30Mbps when we pay for 200Mbps.This cable has very thick insulation and isn't as flexible as normal cable but that's the reason you'd buy this over normal cable. Having recently decorated throughout the house my wife wasn't letting me drill holes into the freshly plastered walls and run cables along them so outside it's went and the speed on the other end is outstanding.Fitting a connector onto the end (If you cut one end off to route the cable) is a little trickier than normal but well worth the effort.