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This is good quality CAT6 cable. I used it to make all the connections for in home network while I was rewiring my house. Pair this with some keystones and faceplates and you can make some very clean media plates in every room. I was careful to make sure I purchased "in wall rated, solid" as the other options serve different or commercial purposes. Since the wire itself is very good, there isn't much to say on the subject. I can offer a few tips for those rewiring their house and using this cable in the walls and attic. Remember that the main thing which defines this cable as CAT6 rated over CAT5 is the center insulation piece that prevents EMI in the twisted pairs running parallel inside the cable. You paid a lot of extra money for CAT6 over 5, so don't cancel that built in protection by introducing external sources of EMI: ~ Avoid as much as possible running this wire near any electrical romex or sockets. Definitely do not pull your CAT6 runs in parallel with any power lines. ~ Eventually you might need to run near an electrical line or two, so make sure to do it perpendicular, like a cross. Be sure to staple the lines in place using soft plastic or insulated clips MADE FOR CAT6. Do not use the standard metal staples for romex. Something like this can be found easily at your local BigBox store: http://amzn.com/B007TMYTK4 ~ Try not to leave extra lengths of cable that you would need to coil up. Measure twice and cut what you need to the right length because coiling can also introduce EMI. ~ Try and install your CAT6 boxes in a different bay of the wall from any electrical outlets that way you gain a little EMI protection using the studs and fire breaks as a barrier. ~ Be very careful when stripping the outside plastic sheathing. You want to BARELY score it, DO NOT SLICE ALL THE WAY THROUGH. You want to use a test scrap of THIS cable and adjust your striping tool so that it very lightly scores the sheath, then you can pull on the outside until it snaps cleanly away at the score line. You should see white stretched material all the way around the cut. If you want to be extra careful, score and pull the sheath, then use the inside string to pull back another 2 inches of sheath and trim. Cut away all the wire where you scored the first time so there is NO CHANCE you might have accidentally sliced the twisted pair insulation. There are many Youtube videos that help explain how to layout, pull, strip, and connect CAT6 so spend an hour planning and learning. Your results will benefit greatly. Here are the supplies I used to built my media infrastructure: Keystone plates = Shaxon BM303WP4-B, 4 Port Single Gang White Keystone Wall Plate and Shaxon BM303WP6-B, 6 Port Single Gang White Keystone Wall Plate Blank Keystone = Shaxon BM303WIN-10-B, Keystone Blank Insert - White, 10 Pack Keystone Mounting Bracket = Arlington LV1-10 Low Voltage Mounting Bracket, 1-Gang, Black, 10-Pack Cat6 Keystone = Cable Matters® 25-Pack Cat6 RJ45 Keystone Jack in White and Keystone Punch-Down Stand HDMI Keystone = HDMI Keystone Coupler, Snap-in for Wallplate, White Coax Keystone = Leviton 40831-BW QuickPort F-Type Adapter, Gold-Plated, White Cat6 Cable = Cable Matters® In-Wall Rated (CM) Cat6 Ethernet Cable in Blue 1000 Feet Coax Cable = Southwire 56918445 500-Feet Quad Shields Type RG 6/U 18 AWG Coaxial Cable, Black Coax Right Angle Adapters = Cable Matters® 10-Pack, Gold Plated Right Angle F-Type Coaxial RG6 Adapter Wall Mounted patch panel = Tripp Lite N250-012 12-Port Cat6 Wall-Mount Vertical 110 Patch Panel Cat6 Crimp connectors (apparently for stranded ONLY) = C&E Cat6, Cat5e crimp connectors, 50 Pcs Per Bags Strain Relief Boots = CableWholesale RJ45 Blue Strain Relief Boots, 50 Pieces per Bag (SR-8P8C-BL) Crimp Tool = TRENDnet 8P/RJ-45 and 6P/RJ-12, RJ-11 Crimp, Cut, and Strip Tool, TC-CT68 Punch Down Tool = Cable Matters® Punch-Down Impact Tool with 110 Blade Coax Crimp Tools = Valley Enterprises Coax Compression Connector Kit 30 pcs PPC-EX6XL RG6/RG6 Quad F Connectors with Tool & Stripper UPDATE 1/17/2016: One of the things I forgot to mention in this review is that if you are going to pull cat6 lines throughout your house, it would be prudent to bring two lines to each location. Frankly, it would be unwise NOT to do so... 1) You can't have too much connectivity to your home network, especially in a world where even toasters and refrigerators are "smart" devices. 2) My home didn't have telephone lines run in the walls. Instead, I had a telecom hatchet job along the baseboards and forced under the edge of the carpet. Being a fickle millennial, I don't have any need for a land telephone line, so I removed all those unsightly RJ11 lines stapled to the baseboards and ran two CAT6 lines in the walls to each location instead. There is no difference between RJ11 and RJ45 (that's the ethernet connector for the too lazy to google audience) in terms of the cable, outside of the fact that cat6 carries 8 wires while typical telephone lines carry only 4 wires. In terms of telephone performance, a copper wire is a copper wire, so you can consider each cat6 line to be the equivalent of two telephone lines. Savvy? If you ever find yourself in need of a telephone line, you can simply down convert one of your CAT6 lines by wiring up just four connectors to an RJ11 terminal and BOOM, you're back in the late 1980's! Actually this can be quite handy in a situation like needing to install land line for a security system. I am pleased as punch so many people have found my review helpful. Several people have personally emailed me questions, so I thought it would be helpful to put a couple good links in my review explaining how to terminate CAT6 wires: [...] [...] TekSyndicate is fantastic, if not beyond nerdy. Then again, at this point you have read over a 1000 words on how to wire up your home network yourself...so who are we kidding, you're a nerd! Embrace it! Good luck and keep the questions coming! UPDATE 3/22/2016: It has come to my attention that I used CAT6 connectors which were intended for stranded wire, not solid. It wasn't until now that I even realized this since someone sent me an email about it. So far my network lines work just fine, but I guess technically they are only CAT5E because of this mistake? Basically at some point I will go back and replace the few connectors I crimped with the proper ones for CAT6 solid wire. They should look like this: Cable Matters 2 Pack, Cat6 Modular Plugs with Load Bars for Solid Cables 100 Pieces per Pack. That is not a product endorsement since I have not used these personally yet, I just wanted to include a link for reference so you can see the difference. UPDATE 6/26/2019: This wire is still going strong. Its so nice to have everything possible hardwired in my home. I recently added a POE camera system to the house using Amcrest POE cams, a POE gigabit switch, and this wire--perfection. Zero problems after nearly 5 years of service.