BYTECC C6EB-50B 50 ft. Cat 6 Blue Color Enhanced 550MHz Patch Cables

Pros: Worked for me.
Cheap enough.

Cons: Stranded wire construction actually made my task more difficult. Not a concern for 98% of patch cable users.

Other Thoughts: I bought this to run telephone circuits into a patch panel without having to crimp one end. Well, I found out that time saved inside was spent outside, trying to strip the 26ga stranded conductors to screw into the POTS network interface box. Got it done, but lost strands in the process.

Pros: Does what it's supposed to do, connect me to the internet. Dowloading at the full rate of my internet plan.(600kb a second). PRICE!!!!!!

Cons: took 4 days to arrive.

Other Thoughts: It's a standard cat6 Ethernet cable that does what its supposed to. Don't let the price fool you, its the real deal.

Even with shipping+tax it was only $16 versus the $40+tax that a certain "yellow tag" retail store charges.

Pros: Excellent quality for the price, thicker than some other generic brands.

Cons: none

Pros: Great cables! Perfect for 10GBASE-T and above. These are better than Cat 6a.

Cons: Outer end casing boot sometimes had to be removed around the insert clip on some applications.

Other Thoughts: The latest standard from the TIA for enhanced performance standards for twisted pair cable systems was defined in February 2008 in ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10. Category 6a (or Augmented Category 6) operates at frequencies up to 500 MHz - twice that of Cat 6.

It can support 10 Gbit/s applications (especially 10GBaseT) up to a maximum distance of 100 meters.

I was able to obtain speeds exceeding ten gigabit/s with these cables through a SMC Tigercard.