Cable Matters 100-Pack Cat 6A Shielded Pass Through RJ45 Connectors, 50µ Gold Plated, Max. Wire OD 1.19mm (Cat6A Ends/Shielded RJ45 Connector/Ethernet Ends) for Solid or Stranded S/FTP Cable

Bought these to go with True Cables clear cut to fit strain relief boots. So far I haven't had any bad terminations with 23awg cable. The boots thankfully fit inside with ease as the cable itself is a cat6a shielded riser cable that measures a smidge over 7mm thick. The outer cable sleeve will not fit inside but that is alright since the strain relief boots locks inside the plugs and I would rather have the shielded foil of the cable to fit snug inside.

It works as it should. Great value. YES! I'm that guy who thought I could crimp a Cat6A, CMX cable to a cat6 pass-though connector. Well, the gauge was too big, so I bought these and it worked! I tested this with a Fluke tester and got 1gb with a green checkmark.

When crimping these with a normal pass through crimper, the RJ45s have too much excess plastic that prevents the crimper tool from cutting all the wire off. This leads to excess wire hanging out the end of the RJ45 and the cable won't sit properly in a NIC. You can use a knife to trim some of the excess wire. However, even then, these don't work great! The actual connections to the wires are very shoddy. They all tested out fine with a cable tester, but not one single cable would give me more than 100Mbps FE. I had to spend many hours reterminating every single cable on the site with higher quality terminations.

I bought this name brand after hearing some of the cheapest ones had tolerance issues fitting into ports. These have made CAT 6 UTP wiring very easy, paired with a through-plug style ethernet crimper that cuts off the excess. I'm doing 23awg solid copper with no issues! I can't say if 6a/7/8 will fit, with their larger shielding. It's worth it getting these rather than fumbling with the old kind.

They work fine, but are just too small for shielded cat6a cable, so there is a gap where the sheathing won't fit in.

Make sure you get the right type - Cat6 vs Cat6a - there is a difference. Nice quick and easy with the full pass through, cables tested well after - at least those where I didnt screw up the wire order ;)

I had a lot of misfires with these. The description says 6/6a. I maybe got 1 out of 10 to work with cat6. Cat 6a, much better luck. Would have given more stars if they dropped the assertion you could actually use these with any kind of confidence with cat6 because you cant. These are only for 6a. I also had a number of them not work with 6a, but at least the failure rate wasnt 90%.

I have been getting into network installs more and more as I get experience with it. I have done two friends houses. Learned something from each one. I was use to the non-passthrough as I didn't think it would be any different than the passthrough. These were actually very easy to use. It took a few tries to see how these go through, but once I got the hang of it, it was easy to terminate one cable after another. These are very solid and I am very happy that I was able to use something that felt sturdy and would last a very long time.