Krone TrueNet patch cable - 5 m

Advantages: Quick Installation, Colour co-oridinated, Fast Speeds
Disadvantages: Price Varied

...a range of lengths, according to your requirements and colours, i.e. red, blue, black, green and yellow. For example at PC World you will be able to purchase the following FastCAT5e cables from Belkin · 25ft (7.6M) £14.99 · 14ft (4.2M) £11.99 · 3ft (0.9M) £8.99 However if you are looking to use a CAT5e cable of longer length or for external requirements I recommend you contact a dedicated cable supplier, such as Universal Networks to ensure the suitability and safety of your product. *Conclusion* For a home user the Belkin FastCAT5e fulfils all the necessary requirements. Data, voice and video are flawlessly transmitted at high speeds, and the installation process is generally very easy. The network cable is ideal for file sharing and for broadband sharing, whilst maintaining speed and reliability, and the product is... Read review

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Advantages: Good build quality, brand name
Disadvantages: A bit pricey.

...Okay, so before everyone gets too excited at the prospect of reading a review about a network cable, I'll bring you all back down to Earth and try to convince you why this one is so great... If you've bought computer peripherals before, you will probably be familiar with Belkin, who are particularly well-known for their USB products. Belkin make all sorts of cables, including a variety of ethernet network cables. This is a Cat 5 standard network cable (coloured red, but you can get it in many other colours, including black, grey, yellow, green, blue etc). One of the major problems with network cables is their tendency to snag when bent through a small radius, and because of the way the individual wires are twisted around eachother inside the cable, this can lead to network errors. The Belkin cable claims to be snagless... Read review

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Advantages: Share your cable broadband connection
Disadvantages: Requires a bit of technical skill

...also drains resources from that 'sharing' PC. The solution was to invest in a Kobian 'Mercury' broadband router. The Kobian router plugs directly into the back of the cable modem (it doesn't work on ADSL cable modems) and offers up to four 10/100 megabit ethernet connections to your Local Area Network. Each PC is set to 'Obtain IP address automatically' on their ethernet interface, and with a bit of luck, and a fair wind, you can all enjoy full Internet connectivity all over the house. There's one disadvantage in all of this - you need to lay 'Category 5' network cabling, and each PC has to be fitted with an ethernet card, but as I had already established a home LAN to allow file and printer sharing, all the infrastructure was already in place. I'm a bit of a gadget freak A consequence of this is that I have more than four... Read review

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