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Best place to buy 250+ Cat5E cable online

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morpheus305

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Looking to buy 250ft or more of cat5e cable online. Just wondering whats the best place now that monoprice is having credit card trouble. Also need to buy rj45 connectors, maybe a bag of 25 or 50 plus need a crimper.8
 
I was going to come and say monoprice, but they are still down.

They have an ebay store. http://shop.ebay.com/monoprice.com/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686 Not sure if you will find the exact size you want there.

They mostly have 20-25 foot rolls. But I saw 1000 Ft boxes. Search for cat5e or cat 6. Seems like they don't have much of a selection there. Mostly stranded 1000 ft boxes, or some in-wall. Not sure which you are looking for.
 
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What are you going to do with the RJ45 connectors and crimping tool? If you are going to build cables, then I suggest not doing that and buying the required commercially-made patch cables. Patch cables are available for as little as $1 each and will be much more reliable than anything you can build.

Bulk network cable is generally intended for doing long runs between rooms, in walls or ceilings. It's solid core and is intended to be terminated at both ends with RJ45 jacks, often called Keystone Jacks.

If you are going to wire a building, use solid core bulk cable to make the runs between rooms, use Keystone Jacks at both ends of the runs, and then use commercial patch cables to connect between those jacks and your computers, routers, and switches.
 
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RebateMonger said:
What are you going to do with the RJ45 connectors and crimping tool? If you are going to build cables, then I suggest not doing that and buying the required commercially-made patch cables. Patch cables are available for as little as $1 each and will be much more reliable than anything you can build.

Bulk network cable is generally intended for doing long runs between rooms, in walls or ceilings. It's solid core and is intended to be terminated at both ends with RJ45 jacks, often called Keystone Jacks.

If you are going to wire a building, use solid core to make the runs between rooms, use Keystone Jacks at both ends of the runs, and then use commercial patch cables to connect between those jacks and your computers, routers, and switches.
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^ This man speaks the truth.

The money you saved on bulk cable will be wasted while you trouble shoot the layer 1 issues causes by crimping your own cables. Solid core isn't for patch cables either.
 
Also, I think monoprice is coming back online today. They won't be accepting credit cards, but you can pay using paypal or google checkout which should be safe.
 
morpheus305 said:
I've crimped my own cables before...
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Just because you have done it before, does not mean it was done right. Professional installers don't even crimp their own cables. It is the number one way to have layer 1 network issues. Most people here won't even attempt to help you until you replace them with machine built cables.
 
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Well all the other cables I've crimped work great. No pl problems at they operate at gigabit speeds.
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if youre going to do something, why not do it the right way? really? theres literally *not* a good reason to do it that way. "it works now" isnt good enough, theres a reason best practices and standards for this uses punch downs.

really, do the job right. buy the patch cables (theyre cheap in bulk) as well as punch-down blocks, wall boxes of some kind, and a punch down tool, and what you do will last a long time, look better, and operate reliably.
 
Im not running this cable to the other side of my room. Its a run to the other side of my house, down into my basement through the floor. The holes are already drilled. They are big enough for the cable but definitely not big enough for a patch cable. Im not gonna drill some huge hole in the living room floor for something like that.
 
morpheus305 said:
Im not running this cable to the other side of my room. Its a run to the other side of my house, down into my basement through the floor. The holes are already drilled. They are big enough for the cable but definitely not big enough for a patch cable. Im not gonna drill some huge hole in the living room floor for something like that.
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If you are going to spend all the time doing that, just use solid core cable and punch it down into keystones. Then get small patch cables for each end. That really is the right way to do it.
 
Watch out for the fake and out of spec stuff out there. I found one site that sells cables that seemed inexpensive until I found out everything is either copper clad aluminum, smaller gauge than spec, or both. Really makes me wonder if their plenum cable really is plenum rated.
 
ecom said:
I found one site that sells cables that seemed inexpensive until I found out everything is either copper clad aluminum, smaller gauge than spec, or both. Really makes me wonder if their plenum cable really is plenum rated.
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Care to share the name of the site?
 
At risk of putting myself in a position where I can get into trouble for libel, I will not. I will say they conduct sales on eBay as well as their own site. The cable is sold under their own company's name.

They do divulge the specs of the cable on the product and product spec page for each item so they are not hiding anything anything per se. But they are still calling it Cat5e so it is misleading.

They also do not claim UL certification probably for good reason.

Just have look at the specs carefully. I would not be surprised if they are not the only people selling this type of stuff.
 
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ecom,

Would you be willing to send it in a PM? You've got me curious. If the product spec page shows the true spec, and it's outside of the category standards, then they shouldn't be selling it as category rated cable...
 
1mm flatwire cat6 - over and over again. this crap is so good i've got some going up the side of my house for the past 2 winters and summers.
 
Im not sure where you live but whenever I used to do small cable jobs I would just run up to my local Graybar, they should carry anything you could possibly need. If you are not going to punch your cables down make sure you buy the proper rj45 ends for solid cable.
 
I am not going to say much as I believe some things said in this thread is a bunch of crap.

I agree; Graybar will have everything you need. They don't sell all this stuff for you to go buy cables that do not fit your needs.

You will be just fine making your own as long as you do it right. Not our fault if some people do not take the time and create issues from their mistakes
 
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