Monoprice Cat6A 3ft Green Patch Cable UTP 30AWG 10G Pure Bare Copper Snagless RJ45 SlimRun Series Ethernet Cable- Pack of 10

For anyone reading the lowest, one-star review...keep in mind a few things:Per TIA guidelines, to be "officially" a CAT6a cable, these three things must be true, which do not exist with these cables:1. It must be between 16-20G wire.2. It must have additional shielding to reduce cross-talk.3. 10-Gbps speeds must be retained up to 328 feet.Therefore, these cables are misrepresented and are grossly mis-advertised, to their own admission (use of 30G wire). However, I AM getting full 1G speeds over 10' patch cables (which is the longest I purchased). See pictures below for details. I have not tried 10G, but I will update this review with the findings soon...just to cut through the BS I see on these Q/A's and reviews.I would recommend that the seller stop advertising these as "certified CAT6A" cables. They are not. You're misleading people, period. However, I am accepting these conditions because they are smaller and I can use them for specific applications (such as tight spaces w/low distances). I'm giving 3-4 stars, because I knew what I was getting. But to anyone else attempting to use these for PoE...I wouldn't recommend it. That would be like trying to run a home power outlet over telephone line. Would you trust that? It's the incorrect gauge for the CAT6a specification which accounts for PoE devices, crosstalk, and speed. This manufacturer is going for a more novelty product, and unfortunately they aren't warning users (which I find a little disturbing, actually). All it takes is one house gone up in flames, and I'm sure you'll be hard pressed to find this product on Amazon anymore under the same name.Details on the pictures:The first iPerf3 test is with a standard 10G rated cable on a 1G connection (first line shows transfer of 90.5 MBytes @ 759 MBits per second); an Intel NUC in a Kubernetes cluster, which is a master node, to another Intel NUC Kubernetes worker node. The second iPerf3 test is with 192.168.3.21 connected via the cable shown here, length = 7' (first line in this one shows transfer of 91.4 MBytes @ 767 MBits per second). The third picture is with both 192.168.3.21 (master) and 192.168.3.26 (worker) using the cable shown here, length = 7' @ (first line in this one shows transfer of 91.3 MBytes @ 766 MBits per second). So believe what you want to believe, and use discretion with your equipment. Again, because of the gauge issue...I would avoid using this cable for PoE, especially 802.3bt which is rated at 90-100W. I really think that's just too much for these little guys. At least I warned you.

These cables are more than capable of doing Cat6A rated 10G speeds. Other reviewers are testing with consumer hardware expecting to get accurate results and using outdated specifications. Attached are iPerf3 results from the following topology.Dell T640 (Monoprice Slimrun Cable) -->10G--> Cisco Nexus 9396TX -->40G--> Cisco Nexus 3064X -->40G--> X99 Whitebox Nas.This test was run on production servers. The Dell client server was running 27 other VM's and hindered the performance slightly which stopped us from getting a true 10G on our test but as you can see the numbers are way higher than other reviewers claim and I have no doubt in a lab environment with nothing else running we would get a true 10G. These cables are just fine for 10G applications and meet Cat6A UTP specs.

Do not get this cable. Its not real 6a. The TIA standard says it can't be smaller than 28 AWG and Its missing the plenum on the inside that should keep each pair separate from eachother. Best transfer speed i could was 12 Mb's a second while normal known good fat 5e, 6, and 6a cables all did 112 Mb's fine. It does not certify either. at Best comes up as cat 5 (not 5e). The AWG says 30.

There are two ways to measure the length of a cable. You can measure from tip of the connector on one end to the tip of the connector on the far end, or you can measure from the point where the cable and the connector meet to the same point on the other end. This doesn't matter much on a 3 or 5 foot cable, but when you get down to a 6" or 1ft cable, this can be more than half the cable. Case in point: On the 6" variety, the cable is composed of 3" of wire between two 1.5" long connectors. They're shorter than expected, but still justified in calling themselves 6" wires, and still long enough for connecting my switch & patch panel to each other, so I'm pleased as punch with the overall result, but it was definitely worth discussing, and I wish it was called out clearly in, for example, the images.Other than that, the little thin, flexible wires connect securely and report no issues while being able to bend and flex and flow where I need them in my rack (Both the 6" and the 5' variety)I have the 5' versions connecting all my servers to the switch, and now the 6" versions connecting all patch panel ports to the switch. I'll be getting some 1" ones later for some of the more permanently placed items like the modem, router, and POE subswitch.

First of all, its really hard to stress the differences between cables in online photos. But these are really slim, on the order of the size of a typical 28AWG USB cable, which makes sense.. A traditional CAT6 cable, or even CAT5e cable, looks comically large next to these. More importantly, it is also comically more easy to handle, being very easy to route around even in tight places, and easy to wind/cable tie off slack to. The connectors are really robustly put on and strain relieved and I don't really feel there will ever be a problem. I have seen no issues in network performance. Also, the connector is fixed very well to the cable so no annoying moving parts to deal with, and it fits snug in every receptacle I have tried. You can tell Monoprice really cared about these design and all the little details for working with the cable are sorted out.Overall, I am transitioning all my short run, pre-terminated ethernet cables to these. I can't imagine any instance where these wouldn't be a far better option vs standard cables of the same length, except where 24 awg cable would be demanded for some other use beyond basic network attach like PoE.

Nice cables. Cuts down on clutter when patching.

Great product

Purchased 10 of these cables. Right out of the box 4 did not work. Out of the 6 that did work, I found that after using them for a few months, when I had to unplug a cable and connect it to a different port on a switch the cable would go bad. Today the last cable of the bunch failed, see the attached picture where wires 1 and 2 are now faulty. Cables should last forever, these didn't even last 6 months.

Quality cable and thin enough to run 3-4 where only one regular Ethernet cable would otherwise have fit. Have worked fine for 24v PoE that Ubiquiti access points use. Definitely not going to be as durable as regular cables if abused, but if you're abusing your Ethernet cables, you deserve what you get. (Definitely a case of getting the right tool for the right job.)A word of warning: Watch out for the wide price differences between the various colours of the same length, and also for variability in the difference between the prices of the 5 packs and the 10 packs. Picking the 'wrong' colour could leave you spending almost as much for a 5 pack of one colour as you would for a ten pack of another colour in the same length. And the pricing variation amongst colours changes with different lengths. Shop carefully and you can get a comparative bargain.

I absolutely love these cables. Despite being super thin, they seem to carry signal every bit at well as standard Cat6 cables.There's two huge advantages for me:1: The cords are thin, so a bundle of these things takes up very very little space, for example in cable management channels between parch panels and switches.2: The cables are super flexible, unlike the rigidity normally found in Cat6. So for all my workstations where staff have a data cable running from their desk phone to their laptop, these cables lie flat and can be tucked out of the way easily. (Standard cat6 gets a twist in it pretty easy then it sits on the desks like a corkscrew and people complain how ugly they are. )I've also used literally dozens of these and no duds so far.