Quad core cat6?

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Anyone used cat6 with more than one set of pairs? (e.g. 8, 12, 16 pairs etc)

Have a situation where I want to run just the one cable, but ideally need 4 cat6 cables. I've found van damme stuff, but that's about it so far?.
 
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This smells like an XY problem. What do you actually need to achieve, and why? Cat6 (all Ethernet) already has 4 pairs, but I gather you mean complete cables-within-cables? Depending on your actual aim, either using your single cable (two for redundancy would be much better) as the backbone for a switch, or a 10Gb fibre connection broken out to 2.5Gb copper ports or similar would likely be easier and better.
 
Cables within cables correct, I've found bundles of 3 cat5e, I've got two working cat6 run at the moment.

Purpose is to run my networking kit upstairs, ubiq firewall, switches etc. with a couple of storage servers, initial connection coming from the BT/Openreach OTP.

It's not a massive run so I am tempted with your suggestion of fibre, not done anything with fibre outside of traditional enterprise storage though.

Edit - Sometimes you just need to say things in order for you to get them straight in your head. The ubiq firewall I have has only one 2.5Gb wan port, so the cat6 will do for now. Everything after that will be a 1-10gb depending on device so all good.
 
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I did fibre from my office up to my airing cupboard, just bought a pair of pre terminated fibre leads from Amazon use media converter in the airing cupboard and plugs straight into my ubiquiti switch in my office and works a treat.

Running two fibre was a lot easier than running multiple cat5/6 cables, plus easy upgrade to 10gb later down the line.
 
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Nikumba said:
I did fibre from my office up to my airing cupboard, just bought a pair of pre terminated fibre leads from Amazon use media converter in the airing cupboard and plugs straight into my ubiquiti switch in my office and works a treat.

Running two fibre was a lot easier than running multiple cat5/6 cables, plus easy upgrade to 10gb later down the line.
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Fibre is a great idea since it’s so thin yeah.

Should be easier to pull through and upgrade down the road (as if fibre is slow to begin with).

Reduced concern over corrosion of the copper too or is the environment you’re installing the networking bone dry?
 
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