Buying stranded Cat5e

bremen1874

bremen1874

bremen1874

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I find that it's convenient to be able to create the occasional patch cable. Unfortunately the length of stranded Cat5e I've been using for this is just about finished.

A full 305m box would be too much, I don't really want more than 100m at the most.

At the moment it's looking like the most cost effective option is going to be buying fairly long, decent quality, patch cables and chopping them down. Unfortunately this would mean I wouldn't really know what I was getting until it was too late.

Any thoughts?
 
Just buy a selection of different lengths, they're about £1 each even with the VAT.

If you're crimping patch cables and it's not because you absolutely need one right now and only have the component parts then your time must be totally worthless.
 
it only cost me £4 for 2X 4m of cat 6a cable gave up making it years ago.

I've got 20meters of CAT5e under the bed and that only got £5 a couple of years ago
 
Take a look at Cable Monkey. If you call them, they should accommodate an order for only 100m of cat5/6 as they manufacture in house...
 
I use stranded Cat5e for my miscellaneous cables. I bought a few long lengths as I didn't fancy 300M of the stuff. Seems to work just fine with my crimping tool and some cheap 8P8C I got off ebay for around a penny each. I've got loads of short patch cables in a variety of different colours but really wanted white cable to run across and between rooms so the 30M lengths I got seemed to be the best option at the time.
 
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