Ultra Spec Cables150ft Cat5e Outdoor Waterproof Ethernet Cable Direct Burial Shielded (Pure Copper)

This is good outdoor cable, so far. I used this to mount wire a IP security camera and networked door bell system on a home which had no possibility of attic access. It was burred about 1.5 feet down along the foundation in a flower bed.The cable is well constructed. It has the outer jacket, a ground drain wire, inner foil shield, then a plastic wrap around the 8 conductors, along with a thread. Plastic boots on the end are nice. I pulled one back to inspect the drain wire and shielded Cat5 jack, and they are properly soldered together. The cat5 end is not mold injected, which would make it very waterproof, but for my situation this was ok, as the ends are pulled into electrical boxes mounted in walls high above the ground level.The wire is very stiff. I had difficulty bending and plugging it into my devices inside the single gang electrical boxes i used. I had to very carefully arrange everything in the box, and have just a small amount of wire pulled into the box, in order to keep the wire from kinking and risk breaking the conductors.This wire was used to reduce the need for putting down conduit, and simplify the job. Install was very easy.

I purchased one 150’ roll. My main gripe is the tight spooling around the center. The cable arrived as a tight donut-shape ring. The hole in the middle was about 4” in diameter. When unspooling it, I had massive tangling problems. The cable is hard and sheathed. It was extra difficult to unfurl and unspool the cable into tight spaces. I was very annoyed at whoever packed it like this. They need to spool it in larger donuts, maybe in an eliptical shape, with at least 12-18” hole in the middle because it is a thin, soft copper wire in hard plastic casing and it doesn’t do well with bends and crinks which happen when you deal with unrolling it. They are borderline damaging their own product with their current packaging.

Perfect for what for what I needed. My son buried it. More than what I needed but that's ok. Ran it to my shed. Very stiff, that is what I needed to run it. Having the ends on the wire really helped. It did not come all bunched up like some reviews said. Very easy to unwind. Very fast shipping. It got here early. Sturdy.

Solid cable and easy to work with. I was surprised to see FTP rather than STP printed on the cable. I had not heard of "foil twisted pair" before, and was amused in researching FTP cable that many are confused by the File Transfer Protocol. Apparently, most STP is FTP anyway - so they should probably just avoid confusion and call it that. In my installation, it runs along the bottom of a pond for 50 feet. I did a speed test before installation and saw no drop against a short cable. I have no reason to think it will fail.

I wanted a line I could bury to my garage. It was relatively simple to install. Slicing the line into the ground took the most time. I can't really say much about durability because I've only been using it for a week but I'm pleased with it so far. The line is much thicker than a regular Cat 5 so I don't anticipate any problems.

Yes.You need this if you want to equip your man pad with wired and wireless internet. I now have gigabit LAN out on the pad for the ROKU and TV out on the pad, and wireless for the guests who can't get off Facebook. Hot tubbing will never be the same.It qualifies as "low voltage" so you can treat it like your landscape lighting and bury it just under the rocks or sod.

Using this for a Behringer X32 sound mixer, with about a 120ft run. Worked great, but I would recommend that anyone try to uncoil this and let it "rest" for a day to allow it to relax a bit before installing it. But it is a good solid cable and excellent value for money.

I was really happy with the way this cable was made. I had a long run to get to the router and didn't want to drill hole after hole in the house when I could run it outside and cover it in a shallow trench. This cable worked great using it that way and saved me the headache of drilling through all the walls getting to the router.

Good quality cable at a rediculously low price.

Well made, heavy cable