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Cat 5E/Cat 6 cable suggestions?

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Gundam

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All of my network cables have been from monoprice. However the last batch I got, only one cable was able to transmit over 8mb/s. I'm no networking expert but the way I tested them was hooked up my laptop to my gigabit router and transferred a 4gb file to my Unraid server. If results were slow, I'd flip the ends, reboot and repeat. Only one cable gave me ~50mb/s the rest were in the 2-8mb/s range. All signs point to the cables unless there may be something I may have overlooked. The funny thing is, I have a few older monoprice cat6 cables and they work great. However I don't want to take another gamble, so if anybody has any other suggestions for cables and where to get them, I would appreciate it.
 
Without a true tester, I wouldn't consider it a valid test. However they will replace truly bad cables. I still prefer Monoprice for the $ / quality.

Note that we (as cable installers) have received entire 1000' boxes of bad cable in the past. If they got bad cable, they likely made a lot of bad cables out of it.
 
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