[GTALUG] Experience with MonoPrice SlimRun Ethernet cables?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:08:06PM -0400, Terry Tanski wrote:
> Anyone have experience using the following SlimRun CAT6 or CAT6A cables in
> a moderately dense datacenter environment?
> 
> http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10232&cs_id=1023208&p_id=13542&seq=1&format=2
> 
> - Are they sufficiently shielded?
> - Are they easily bent or kinked?
> - Good quality cable ends?
> - Do the shorter CAT6 work properly for 10G?

Well at least for longer cables 10G supposedly requires CAT6A or CAT7.

It seems 10G can run on CAT 6 up to 55m, rather than the 100m you can
do with the better cables.

> I have used MonoPrice CAT6 cabling before and found no issues with their
> product but I used the traditional thicker cable.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insight,

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Len Sorensen