I usually buy cable from either FS.com or primecable.com. If you have a PST# you can get it faster w/o shipping at Anixter or EECOL or any other electrical distributor.

Cat 6/6A/7 is good if you want to run multi-gig or 10GBASE-T. *Significantly* harder to work with and terminate compliantly than Cat5e - strongly recommend the "self-terminating" jacks both M and F if you go that route.

IMHO, YMMV, etc.

-Adam

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From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> on behalf of Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024 9:22:48 PM
To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: [RndTbl] Cat 6 cable

What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6?