TRUE CABLECat6 Outdoor, 500ft, Waterproof, Direct Burial Rated CMX, 23AWG Solid Bare Copper, 550MHz, ETL Listed, Unshielded UTP, Bulk Ethernet

Great product but highly recommend only using push through connectors. Had a tough time with standard connectors.

Good value for price paid

Update 9/14/2020- Taking down to one more star. After sitting down and thinking a bit, although TrueCable as company was communicative, they have not done anything beyond what company should be doing for selling two defective items in row, which costing me money for installation to installer. I had been in item return window, so no matter what I could have just returned item anyways. I would; however, give them one extra star For their honesty admitting that screwed up.This is my third time purchase of TrueCable. The first couple purchases went fine. However, recently I have decided to build 10G network, which is indeed a pushing to the limit of Cat 6; however, not beyond. The high quality/good Cat 6 cable should be able to support 10G up to 55m/180ft or so. In fact, my first purchase 150+ ft run achieved this.However, this time at 130ft or so run, the cable was entirely non-usable e.g. negotiated at 100Mbps link. Less distance run, only 5Gbps link. Obviously 100 Mbps link for Cat 6 is unacceptable but even 5 Gbps link under 100ft is also not acceptable in my opinion as we are buying Cat 6 cable. If one is just looking for 1Gbps speed, you do not need Cat 6. Cat 5e would suffice. So there should always be that capability otherwise, we are paying for falsely advertised product.Good customer serviceNow, I can see every once and a while there is a chance I.e. bad luck, that one gets defective product. This is inevitable in any type of business. How they would respond to such circumstance i.e. the customer service is very important in these situation. For this, I would give an extra stars to TrueCable. They were very quick in response, very professional and detailed. They have assured they will help me first to see if there is any troubleshoot that can solve the issue; otherwise, they will send new item, which was in their first email, very relieving to hear. They didn’t wait until my item is first received on their end, instead they have first sent me the replacement while working on the return shipping, which was for testing/confirming if the cable was truly defective.It turned out the spool I have received was indeed defective, and supposedly failed all tests when they checked the remaining cables that I sent back. They were surprised that I even got any speed on such spool. As I hired installer to put these cables, this has already cost me multiple factors more than this cable itself. Since it is not installer’s false, I had to pay him again to replace all these cables.However, fortunately I was a bit smarter this time. I had asked the installer to actually put the first, longest length cable first before proceeding to any other cable runs. This way, I can test the new/replacement cable I had received. I was very disappointed, upset but at the same time grateful I did this because the result was indeed another defective cable. I fortunately had another Cat 6 cable in my house, so I’ve had the installer try putting that one as to ensure it is not somehow related to my home environment e.g. weird interference along the cable run. This new cable worked perfectly. So clearly, it was another defective spool.I can see a single defective spool by a bad luck, but two consecutive defective cables is either astronomically bad luck or more likely very poor quality control of the company. In the end I had to pay installer two times because he had to install everything twice. This could have been worse if I didn’t check with the first run on the second install.Recommendation1. I would personally stay away from TrueCable if you are hiring someone else to install and supplying cable on your own because such high rate of defective unit. This can cost much more.2. If you still want to use this cable, I’d highly suggest to run a first (the longest cable) and test before installing other cable. At the short distance, issue may not be apparent.3. Test using iPerf or other means of beyond Gigabit because cheap cable connectivity tester or even Fluke MicroPoE Verifier did not catch the issue for me. If you feel, you just need 1Gbps speed and do not care the NBase-T including 10G then this may work but still may give an issue. But the reality is for such person, you do not need Cat 6. Just buy Cat 5e and save money or at the least get consistent promised speed. I could not even get 1 Gbps on my 130ft cable where Cat 5e can cover well over twice the distance.4. If you are future proofing, again I won’t trust quality control on this company’s product.

The outer sheath is outdoor grade as advertised. I used 1/2 pvc to bury it in, but likely didn't need it. More about aesthetics. I buried 200 feet between my house and my work shop. I made a full 1GB ethernet connection between the 2 buildings, using consumer grade TP-LINK ethernet switches. Very happy with the results. If it lasts 30 years as claimed, I should be dead by then.

My cable arrived in a well packaged box completely intact - no damage to the spool. I was worried since others have had issues. I was running a replacement wire outside and wanted to make sure it would stand up to the elements. This cable looks to meet the requirements and has so far proven reliable. I have only used about 80 feet, but haven't had any issues with my cable after a few weeks. I'll update later if I run into anything. Very rigid cable, but does bend. I hadn't used any cat6 cable before, or even direct burial cable, so it was a new experience. This seems to be well made and certainly solid copper. I used the IDEAL pass-through cat6 connectors and crimp tool to terminate with no issues.