1aTTack.de 20m - CAT6 flat network patch cable (black - 1 piece) 1000 Mbit/s Gigabit LAN flat cable CAT.6 Slim Micro installation cable

I own a white ethernet cable, but after getting some work done around the house I decided on a cable that better matches the wood inside my house, as I'm running it from the router upstairs to my office.This cable is nice and sturdy, with good solid connections on either end and a nice durable feel to the cable. I would think it would blend in with most colours of light wood, and it has a low profile so it's easy to route around skirting boards with some tape or cable hooks.I have it connected to gigabit ports on my router and PC, and it connects at 1.0Gbps every time. I have 80 down / 20 up FTTC, connecting at 79/19 at the line, and it maxes these out every time. No signal degradation or noise which I know some people wonder about when buying a flat Ethernet cable (as this can sometimes happen due to the fact that the individual cables are side by side), but I haven't had any issues with speed or reliability, no drop outs or high latency etc.All in all a well performing cable with no connection issues that can be easily routed around difficult spots.

I bought several of these cables (at various lengths) as an interim home networking solution, running cables from my living room router to rooms that are out of reach for wifi in the home.They are very discreet and easily thin enough to hide under carpet, skirting boards or neatly behind furnishings. They're robust enough to be walked on within causing issue to data transfer and I'm able to achieve the full speed (194mb per second) download from my 200mb Fibre internet, even over 20metres!A few minor quabbles;- The cables twist easily and end up looking like Riccioli, so if you're not gluing them to a flat surface, it can get a little messy.- Colours. I ordered grey to match much of my home decor, but its more of a biege and kind of unsightly. Not a problem if hidden, but you might not get quite as you expect.Overall, a fantastic product at a great price point.

I have had no problems with using the cable for ethernet transfers up to my contracted rate of 75Mbps on fibre broadband.A wired ethernet system allows you to avoid clashes with your neighbours' WiFi channels/bandwidth and gives much improved connection speeds.If, as I did, you want to chop off the ends and install an ethernet system in your house, providing female sockets for patch cables to plug into, then my advice is that it is best to avoid doing this. This cable will fit in very tight spaces, under the edge of carpets, under doors, round tight corners without problems and its terminals are very small allowing them to pass through small holes and cracks.However if you must do this, please note that you will be releasing the cable supplier from his warranty obligation. Here are my tips from my experience. Please note that the photos are of a Cat 7 cable, by the same supplier; I used these for a different project, but the technique is the same.1. examine carefully the very useful diagram of the cable's makeup. You can find this together with the photos of the cable on the Amazon website. Note how very small the seven copper inner conductors are: AWG 32. Don't attempt the following unless you have very good eyesight and steady hands. I admit that I had to ask my grandson to tackle the job: 12 terminations.2. the individual copper inner conductors are so delicate that they will fracture with very little applied stress. The maximum stress that they come under is just after the point of contact in the vees of the termination, and at a point where the strands may turn through 90 degrees and have to carry the loading on the cable.3. The cutting of the strands is dependant on the exit position of the cable from the jack. If the cable is to exit at 90 degrees from the axis of the jack then the strands can be cut in equal lengths, but if the cable exits along the axis (out of the 'back') of the jack (Fig 1) then the strand lengths must be cut so that no strand is taking more loading than any other.4. The obvious way to connecting the strands is the very well used punchdown method that has been in use in telephony systems for many years. The success rate for my grandson for using this method on this cable was about 5%. The reason is that the insulation is a large part of the cross-sectional area and the chance of one of the seven copper conductors making contact with the terminating vee is small.5. Do not attempt to strip off the insulation by mechanical means; this is fairly obvious: the seven copper conductors will fracture.6. My method is to burn off the insulation, which can be achieved quite safely and in a controlled manner by using a night light to provide the heat and ignition, and gripping the strand with a standard, steel nosed set of pliers (see Fig 4). The insulation will burn from the cut end of the strand all the way to the pliers, whence the steel of the pliers transmits the heat away, preventing the burning to progress further along the strand. There is an added and very important bonus too, since there is an accumulated amount of insulation in the very place where the maximun stress in the strand occurs; this accumulation of insulation material will help to prevent fracture of the copper conductors. Note that the accumulation is much less for the Cat 6 cable than that shown in Fig 4.7. My grandson arranged that the length of the burning, exposing the copper conductors, was such as to allow the conductors to be turned through 180 degrees (bent back on themselves) to give twice as many possible contact points with the termination vees.8. He also 'tinned' (applied solder to) the resulting mellee of copper conductors to improve the chances of a good contact being made.This improved the success rate of overall terminations to about 95%. A continuity checker was used to seek out any bad terminations, followed by remedial action.During the summer of 2018 I used both Cat 6 and Cat 7 flat cables, from this supplier, for different projects. The Cat 6 cable is smaller: 10% less wide and 17% less thick, but because it uses much less insulation, its copper inner conductors are twice the diameter (0.2mm) and so less liable to fracture. It is easier to fit through and round obstacles and the terminals are 22% shorter. However we actually found it easier to terminate the Cat 7 cable (using the above precedure for both cables).

Bought this cable to install a second router in my house as the walls seem to be very offensive against WiFi signal.I bought the 30m White cable and it arrived the next day with Prime. It came in a sealed bag and was coiled and tied up nicely. The cable feels sturdy but it is very light at the same time.The cable measurements are as follows:- Thickness: ~1.5mm- Width: ~6mmThe cable worked fine and did not had any issues with my connection. I am on a 150Mbps connection from Virgin Media and I get 160+ Mbps from my second router (WiFi and Cable) which is connected to the SuperHub 2.0 AC through this cable.The only problem I had with this cable is the way it was packed. The cable came wrapped with both ends going to the centre of the coil and it made it impossible to lay it out without twisting and tangling. I ended up going through the full length of it to get it loose which took well over an hour. The cable is still twisted in places around the house but I attribute that to the clips I have used.

I bought a number of these flat CAT6 cables and colour-coded various locations so it was easy to identify where cables ran.These cables are awesome, why no one thought of flat cables to start with is a mystery.I've bought a number of colours and lengths up to 50m and have not had any issues with the cables at all. They are great value for money too, the 50m cable is less than £25.Would highly recommend these cables. In the future I will not only be buying these for new runs, but also replacing older round cables with the new flat ones.The only issue I've had is the as the cables are shipped coiled up, they have a tendency to try to coil back up again when you unroll them. This does wear off eventually, but you can fix it by putting the cable in warm water for a few minutes. DON'T get the terminals at the end of the cable wet though!

Nice flat lead and suitable for our need