I recently switched to gigabit service, however I was only able to get 350Mbps even with a strong WiFi connection. I made the decision to hardwire my house, and the outcomes are self-evident. The cable is easy to work with, nicely coiled, and pleasant and robust.Excellent quality (10/10).Note: When I was using the internet alone later in the evening, my kids' Netflix use during my testing easily reached 900Mbps.It's this one!

We've tried a ton of different usb-cable in all shapes and sizes. This one is a winner.The cable costs just under $1 a foot, which is a competitive price (you can pay less, but you get a cheaper cable). The cable itself has a really nice sheath that protects the cable and keeps it flexible and easy to roll up. The ends of the cable are really nice and durable - I've probably plugged/unplugged each end of the cable 200 times while using it and it still works like it was brand new.We use this cable in the living room to provide ethernet on-demand to our laptops. That means it spends a lot of time alternating between being coiled up behind the TV out of sight and laying across the living room floor being walked on and kicked. The flat shape of the cable means it lies nicely on the ground and presents less of a tripping hazard than the more traditional round ones.Overall we are very happy with this cable and we recommend it for someone looking for an ethernet cable.

I didn't realize that this cable is flat. I saw the cable in product picture 1 and it wasn't clear to me. I won't take off any stars for this but I just wanted to mention this.I'm not sure why anybody would want to make a flat cable. They bend downwards or upwards easily but not so much to the left or right. I mean, it's doable but I find rounded cables to be more useful.I'm not sure about the speeds. They are fine to me. My router, wifi extender, and computers have 1 Gbps ports so they can't utilize the speeds of a cat 8 cable.The heads of each end are really nice. They're made out of metal. I've never seen that before. The heads are much nicer than the heads of the cat 5 and 5e cables that I currently have.I can recommend this cable if you need a network cable.

A very nice cable. It is a lot lighter than I expected. The flat design has it taking up less space than a typical ethernet cord of the same length and is easier to coil. It also of course does its intended function well too.It also looks good and is probably the best looking cable I own. Certainly the best looking ethernet cable I own.Comes With:- one ethernet cablePros:- flat design saves space- looks good- light- works wellCons:- none

Very nice cable cesign that has top notch end connectors. No issues transferring the internet and speed was maintained. I only have 70mps however no signal loss after testing. Good packaging and item arrived in perfect condition. Appropriate lenght as well as described.

I grabbed this (and a few others of various lengths) to replace existing Cat 6/7 flat cables in an attempt further to tidy up the area around the server room. Several years ago I managed to replace of the existing round cables around the house to flat ones and they've been working great ever since (well, the vast majority of 'em anyway as a few were damaged in high traffic areas).I've started replacing some of 'em with Cat 7; not necessarily for performance/speed, but more importantly for durability and reliability because this is [supposedly] STP (shielded twisted pair) as opposed to UTP (unshielded twisted pair) that's more resistant (but not impervious) to electromagnetic interferences (EMIs) and if you want to forget about EMI, go with fiber optics with media converters.Unlike Cat 6 or even Cat 7 to a certain degree, this (Cat 8 and others like it) is NOT designed for general home/office cabling but instead it's designed for data centers where the distances between the racks, or specifically, servers and switches are relatively short because Cat 8 cables are limited to 30m to maintain their 2 GHz rate. However, you can certain use longer cables at reduced speed if that's what you want, but longer Cat 8 cables are far less common (can still be found here of course) in comparison to Cat 6/7 simply because that's not what they are designed for.This is noticeably thicker and stiffer than Cat 7's with much smaller bend radius requirement so it's not nearly as flexible as Cat 6 or even Cat 7. This and a few others Cat 8 cables will be used in the main closet to minimize EMI and that's about all these will do for me at the moment since I don't have full 10 Gbps network at home (yet). If you are wondering, yes, I work with these in our data centers. Btw, I've used various flat clips and/or transparent double-sided tape (acrylic glue) to secure 'em unto different surfaces.≡ NoteSpeed testing through Internet via your typical testing sites is NOT an ideal way to test these and often wouldn't necessarily provide you with definitive results; the tests need to be point-to-point with no other devices then a switch in between capable of at least achieving the same speed that the cables are rated for.≡ PerformanceSo how does this perform? Well, the laptop used to perform the tests only has a 2.5 GigE port so that's the max it'll ever get and the result which was around 294.375 MB/s (2355 Mbps) which is close enough to the max and that's sufficient for me (as a quick test anyway). For those who are curious, the tests were performed against VMs running on Cisco UCS blades with 40 Gbps backplane through Nexus 9000 series switches.Btw, Cat6 is more than enough for ALL consumer grade Internet plans in Canada. As a matter of fact, a decent quality Cat5e would just do fine with 2.5 Gbps and if your Cat5E can't handle 1 Gbps, it's the cable itself and not the spec (i.e. Cat 5e vs Cat 6). The shorter the cable, the lower the overall quality it can be to support the same speed/bandwidth as a longer cable with higher build quality can.≡ ValueAll things considered, this is a fairly decent RJ45 Cat 8 Ethernet cable that's well-constructed and works as expected (so far). It's reasonably priced at $14 (for a 5 m/16 ft) and there are quite a few options and/or alternatives out there that are slightly more cost effective if you care to shop around. Its longevity is TBD, as always.