Ultra Spec Cables 330ft Cat5e Outdoor Waterproof Ethernet Cable Direct Burial Shielded (Pure Copper)

The cable was easy to install outdoors, partly buried and partly above ground. It is a bit stiff and not easily bendable, but this was not a problem. It seems well made but only time will tell about its weather proof quality. I have a 500 Mb/s internet system and my computers and iphones get over 300 Mb/s speed using wifi in my home. I used this cable to extend the system to my shop to a new wifi point on my Google mesh wifi system. The shop wifi point works well but the max speed is 100 Mb/s which is fine for my needs, but the speed loss over the 175 ft ethernet is greater than I expected. It is difficult to find out information about speed loss over long ethernet wires, some say there should be none and others say there is a slow down but it should be minimal for up to 300 ft wires. This could be an issue for people who have a gigabit speed system and actually need that high speed.

First off, I’m super pumped to have internet in my out building where I work finally. I shoot YouTube videos and had to put everything on a drive and bring in into the house to upload. Now I can do it right there. We also upgraded our speed recently, so the whole process got better. We have gig speed internet and after the full length of the cable I’m at 900+ Mbps download. My upload speed is actually the same as the house with no loss.I ran this thing from the hub in my living room, through the floor, across the basement ceiling, out the wall, under the door, through the yard in a small channel I dug for it, through my outbuilding wall, upstairs through the ceiling there, up through my desk, and finally into my computer. There were lots of places to get kinked. It did a few times so you have to be careful not to force it, but it undid and survived quite well. It’s been underground now for several months through rain, ice, and snow. It’s holding up wonderfully.I say get this. It’s great. I was going to try wifi boosters, but the signal loss was too much. This loses practically nothing.

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.

Great cables, they really lock in place with good NICs/PoE's and prevent EMI noise. They almost completely eliminated EMI noise, crosstalk, etc. Just be sure to install them correctly. (50mm apart / 1/2", ect) I used them for a PoE WiFi AB to Client bridge for a NAS server. I would recommend Super 33 3M tape and some flex tape to seal up outdoor connections.

Its been almost a year now with this cord. Its laying across my back yard through wind, rain, dog bites, dog scratches, being squished by the doors it runs through and yet it still works. We never bothered to bury it though with my tunneling dogs, they've helped to bury it over time, neither of which has affected its function. We've never brought it in, its been out there for over a year and we use it weekly if not more often. I do wish that the tip was a bit more heavy duty like the actual cord but it hasn't broken so I guess really, its probably fine. I haven't baby'd it or anything. I am thinking about buying another one that's just slightly longer in order to have more length to work with but that's a personal preference and not an issue with the cord. In fact, I'll purchase another of this brand. I'm sold on the quality so far.

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 out 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.

I bought this to run a wired network connection into my basement. I left the ends in place and drilled large holes through my walls and anchored the wire to my exterior wall. This was seven months ago. Now that I've finished remodeling my basement, I hooked up my equipment and...nothing. After a lot of troubleshooting, I determined that the cable was bad. No signal going through it. I've examined the cable and there's nothing externally wrong with it, so it has to be something inside. A waste of $40.

Ran this directly from FiOS Optical Network Terminal outside the house into my basement. 2 months now and still good. It's a bit stiffer than I'd like, but the price is right and it's not something I have to fold and pack repeatedly like a regular cable anyway so once installed I am a happy man.

Nice item as described

Good quality cable at a rediculously low price.

Works well. Not as stiff as described by others. I found it easy to work with. So far, so good. We'll see how it survives the winter.Buried it under some river rock/gravel. Using for a PoE camera. Works fine.

Turns out it's way longer than I needed to run internet to my shop and is working like it should so far

good and tough cable.