trueCABLE patch cables fixed a bunch of connection issues I was having with Monoprice Silmrun CAT6a (yeah right) at greater than gigabit speeds. I didn't think they'd make much of a difference, but they were totally worth it! Wish you guys had more colors, so it'd be easier to differentiate cables from other cables. I used rainbow colors before and pluged a different color into each port. I also like that these cables work with UniFi RGB ports. Super cool!
Hello Saturn2888! Thanks for the kudos. Feel free to hop over to our website and leave a review! You just discovered what many others are going to find out...that imported mass-produced patch cords are largely unmitigated garbage. It is not hyperbole nor an exaggeration for me to make this assertion. It is the truth. Incidentally, I tested those patch cords you are referring to. I can tell you they did not even pass Cat6 patch cord testing, much less Cat6A. I don't think they would have passed Cat5e even, but I only have a single Cat5e PCA adapter, so I cannot test Cat5e test limits on patch cords (I can only test Cat6 and Cat6A test limits on patch cords). On a side note, I use Ubiquiti equipment, too, and I also love that our clear boots glow with the RGB lighting of the switch ports like yours do. I noted the desire for additional colors. Can you please specify which ones you would like to see the most? Like, the top three? Feel free to hop over to our website and leave a review!
@@trueCABLE rainbow colors actually. When looking at a patch panel, I like having all ports different colors if possible. Especially if you have a mess of them as I do right now (since I haven't reconfigured my keystones yet after adding 2 other switches). Maybe I'm weird, but I do code for a living and all white or all black code is hard to read. I prefer syntax highlighting where each color has a job kinda like how your fiber pigtails have standard colors. I don't mind having even 8-10 colors too, just a few more to help know what I'm seeing at a glance.
What might be a good option in addition to or along side are maybe color clips to go on the jacket or connector area. I have seen several other companies do this. It allows us to buy a single color of various lengths and we color code them with the clips when we install them. Just my $0.02. I am about to re-patch our racks to clean everything up and will be looking at these. Thanks for the video
Happy to see the patch cables! The fact that they're all verified is great! I recently swapped some cables for things that were acting funky. Surprised was a not outright bad cable could cause. I'm really interested in some Cat6a Color wise yellow for test cables, followed by red.
Hello Elliot! Not just verified, but 100% Certified with a Fluke DSX-8000 using Patch Cord Adapters one by one! The vast majority of the patch cords out there are absolutely defective in some way. Your experience is not unusual. Thanks for the suggestions on the colors and additional Categories! We just added those to the list and will wait a bit and see what colors get the most votes
1) Do the cables ship with the certifier report? Or at least a PDF copy. 2) Do the certifications cover PoE? 3) Do you have any plans for similar certified 6A patch cables? 4) It seems that you only ship in the US. Any plans for international orders?
Hello dono! 1)We do not ship the patch cords with a Fluke certification report. The reason is two-fold. This would increase costs pretty dramatically and environmental responsibility. The reports would just end up in a landfill. 2)Our certifications cover PoE++ 802.3bt and have been tested as such. 3)We do plan to offer shielded 28AWG Cat6A patch cords in the future, but we are awaiting the results of this first batch of patch cords to see what colors and lengths are most popular. 4)We ship to the USA and Puerto Rico only, although you can obtain our products from Amazon Canada. We have no plans to offer international shipping.
That makes a good point, I know there are a lot of different colors for different functions. Interesting I like yellow or orange for wireless access points. Great suggestion.
Hello ALG IT! Noted and thanks. We have added yellow and red as two colors upvoted by you and others. After a period of time of data collection we will likely settle on a couple or three more colors to release.
I'd like to see 18 inch patch cables. This 6 inches makes all the difference when you are down to the short lengths working on patch panels. When you need say 13 inch, going to 24 inch is way too long. I checked your web site and the next size up from 1 foot was 3 feet ! Oh my...
I think it would be great to offer colors that match your keystone jacks. Both shielded and unshielded, that’s at least the route I went with my home rack set up.
Hello Paul! That is a great idea, and we originally thought of it as you do. That said, some colors sell faster than others, and we are being careful to carry the colors people want without adding to our warehouse space products that don't move well or at all. Warehousing is expensive, and we have other products we want to add. Like residential 12 port wall mount patch panels (shielded and unshielded), and Cat6A shielded patch cords, in addition to wall mount racks...so...yeah...being careful!
I think the Blue is the most common color I see at my work place. It is also the color of cables they ran in my home when I had it built. But you already have Blue. It’s hard to say which colors, maybe I might add black, always a safe bet IMO
@@pharpester Hello Paul! Yes, blue is the most common color out there. We already have black and white. We noted your suggestion for green from an earlier comment you left. Thanks!
Hello Pete! We thought of that too. It would add a LOT to the cost and the printed report would only end up in the landfill anyway. We nixed the idea in the end.
Hello! Not as of yet. We are planning to offer Cat6A 28AWG shielded patch cords in the future, but are waiting to see what the preferred lengths and colors are with the Cat6 U/UTP patch cords first.
Hello Mahlon! They are guaranteed Cat6 component rated and 100% Certified with a Fluke DSX-8000 prior to shipment--one by one. That is the only way to guarantee a good patch cord. I would agree that $6 for a patch cord would be pricey IF the patch cord was not absolutely guaranteed to work correctly, even when bent at a rather severe angle at the terminations. The pricing reflects the cost of quality, and lately, the patch cords that have flooded the market are largely not properly tested and unreliable in some way. In the end, what could cost you far more? Moral of the story: Your patch cord is just as important as the performance of a permanent link. You would not walk away from a professional installation without certifying it. Why would you walk away from a patch cord without knowing...for certain...that it performs too?
That's great John! Creating your own with solid copper is not a good idea, and creating your own with stranded copper is not a terrible idea IF you have the appropriate test equipment to be sure the patch cord works to the standard. Most people don't. A Fluke DSX-8000 with Cat6 PCA adapters (an add-on) is going to cost north of $14,000. With us, you don't need to have the fancy tester because we have more than few to guarantee a good cord.
I can see the frame errors in all my switches. NONE of my short or long bought cables have any errors. If you do understand the standard and electronics (differential signaling), you understand how resilient the signals are. But groupies, wanna-bes and ignorant people can have the honor of paying quite more. I would welcome a real world speed transfer test to shut mouths!
Hello! I am glad to hear you have not experienced any issues. That said, I have personally experienced issues with poor-quality patch cords that caused a full channel failure and several million packet errors every 8 to 10 hours due to a capacitance build-up and discharge. The permanent link and the patch cord on the switch side were certified. After some hair-pulling, I removed and tested the patch cord on the remote side. The cord failed patch cord testing to the point that the RL was -5.9 dB, and the NEXT parameter was -3.9 dB. That was enough to cause an issue on the entire channel and the issue manifested itself not just through my Ubiquiti hardware reporting Tx and Rx errors, but dropped video frames and choppy camera feeds. Ethernet is indeed resilient, but don't be fooled. Sufficiently bad patch cords can and absolutely will ruin your day and maybe even your reputation if the chips are really down. You are free to decide how much roulette you wish to play and how important your time is to you when running down an issue. For me, personally, I would rather have a patch cord that I know works before I plug it in. Side note, I am Don Schultz, and I have a BICSI INSTC and INSTF certification in addition to Fluke Networks CCTT certification. No wanna-be here. /
I'm very happy to see patch cables built to trueCABLE quality, this will make parts ordering so much easier and less stressful.
This is what we like to see! Thanks for your support!
trueCABLE patch cables fixed a bunch of connection issues I was having with Monoprice Silmrun CAT6a (yeah right) at greater than gigabit speeds. I didn't think they'd make much of a difference, but they were totally worth it! Wish you guys had more colors, so it'd be easier to differentiate cables from other cables. I used rainbow colors before and pluged a different color into each port. I also like that these cables work with UniFi RGB ports. Super cool!
Hello Saturn2888! Thanks for the kudos. Feel free to hop over to our website and leave a review! You just discovered what many others are going to find out...that imported mass-produced patch cords are largely unmitigated garbage. It is not hyperbole nor an exaggeration for me to make this assertion. It is the truth. Incidentally, I tested those patch cords you are referring to. I can tell you they did not even pass Cat6 patch cord testing, much less Cat6A. I don't think they would have passed Cat5e even, but I only have a single Cat5e PCA adapter, so I cannot test Cat5e test limits on patch cords (I can only test Cat6 and Cat6A test limits on patch cords). On a side note, I use Ubiquiti equipment, too, and I also love that our clear boots glow with the RGB lighting of the switch ports like yours do. I noted the desire for additional colors. Can you please specify which ones you would like to see the most? Like, the top three?
Feel free to hop over to our website and leave a review!
@@trueCABLE rainbow colors actually. When looking at a patch panel, I like having all ports different colors if possible. Especially if you have a mess of them as I do right now (since I haven't reconfigured my keystones yet after adding 2 other switches).
Maybe I'm weird, but I do code for a living and all white or all black code is hard to read. I prefer syntax highlighting where each color has a job kinda like how your fiber pigtails have standard colors.
I don't mind having even 8-10 colors too, just a few more to help know what I'm seeing at a glance.
What might be a good option in addition to or along side are maybe color clips to go on the jacket or connector area. I have seen several other companies do this. It allows us to buy a single color of various lengths and we color code them with the clips when we install them. Just my $0.02. I am about to re-patch our racks to clean everything up and will be looking at these. Thanks for the video
Hello and thanks for that suggestion. We will add that to the wish list.
Would love to see these new cables in your existing colors. If anything, a yellow and green would be great.
Thanks! We will add those to the list of possibilities!
@@trueCABLE Green please
@@darylrudusky5137 Hey Daryl! NOTED AND ADDED SIR! Thanks.
Happy to see the patch cables! The fact that they're all verified is great! I recently swapped some cables for things that were acting funky. Surprised was a not outright bad cable could cause.
I'm really interested in some Cat6a
Color wise yellow for test cables, followed by red.
Hello Elliot! Not just verified, but 100% Certified with a Fluke DSX-8000 using Patch Cord Adapters one by one! The vast majority of the patch cords out there are absolutely defective in some way. Your experience is not unusual. Thanks for the suggestions on the colors and additional Categories! We just added those to the list and will wait a bit and see what colors get the most votes
1) Do the cables ship with the certifier report? Or at least a PDF copy.
2) Do the certifications cover PoE?
3) Do you have any plans for similar certified 6A patch cables?
4) It seems that you only ship in the US. Any plans for international orders?
Hello dono!
1)We do not ship the patch cords with a Fluke certification report. The reason is two-fold. This would increase costs pretty dramatically and environmental responsibility. The reports would just end up in a landfill.
2)Our certifications cover PoE++ 802.3bt and have been tested as such.
3)We do plan to offer shielded 28AWG Cat6A patch cords in the future, but we are awaiting the results of this first batch of patch cords to see what colors and lengths are most popular.
4)We ship to the USA and Puerto Rico only, although you can obtain our products from Amazon Canada. We have no plans to offer international shipping.
I agree with others that red and yellow would be nice. Red for cross-over cable or firewalls, yellow for routers/uplinks (Thanks, Cisco :D ).
That makes a good point, I know there are a lot of different colors for different functions. Interesting I like yellow or orange for wireless access points. Great suggestion.
Hello ALG IT! Noted and thanks. We have added yellow and red as two colors upvoted by you and others. After a period of time of data collection we will likely settle on a couple or three more colors to release.
I'd like to see 18 inch patch cables. This 6 inches makes all the difference when you are down to the short lengths working on patch panels. When you need say 13 inch, going to 24 inch is way too long. I checked your web site and the next size up from 1 foot was 3 feet ! Oh my...
Hello David! Agreed, I would too, personally speaking. I added 18" to our list.
- Don Schultz
I think it would be great to offer colors that match your keystone jacks. Both shielded and unshielded, that’s at least the route I went with my home rack set up.
Hello Paul! That is a great idea, and we originally thought of it as you do. That said, some colors sell faster than others, and we are being careful to carry the colors people want without adding to our warehouse space products that don't move well or at all. Warehousing is expensive, and we have other products we want to add. Like residential 12 port wall mount patch panels (shielded and unshielded), and Cat6A shielded patch cords, in addition to wall mount racks...so...yeah...being careful!
I think the Blue is the most common color I see at my work place. It is also the color of cables they ran in my home when I had it built. But you already have Blue. It’s hard to say which colors, maybe I might add black, always a safe bet IMO
@@pharpester Hello Paul! Yes, blue is the most common color out there. We already have black and white. We noted your suggestion for green from an earlier comment you left. Thanks!
Love this :) It would be amazing if each came with a copy of it's Fluke report printed out! :) (similar to Blue Jeans Cable)
Hello Pete! We thought of that too. It would add a LOT to the cost and the printed report would only end up in the landfill anyway. We nixed the idea in the end.
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Do these come shielded?
Hello! Not as of yet. We are planning to offer Cat6A 28AWG shielded patch cords in the future, but are waiting to see what the preferred lengths and colors are with the Cat6 U/UTP patch cords first.
They look like quality cables, but $6+ for a patch cable is unreasonable.
Hello Mahlon! They are guaranteed Cat6 component rated and 100% Certified with a Fluke DSX-8000 prior to shipment--one by one. That is the only way to guarantee a good patch cord. I would agree that $6 for a patch cord would be pricey IF the patch cord was not absolutely guaranteed to work correctly, even when bent at a rather severe angle at the terminations. The pricing reflects the cost of quality, and lately, the patch cords that have flooded the market are largely not properly tested and unreliable in some way. In the end, what could cost you far more? Moral of the story: Your patch cord is just as important as the performance of a permanent link. You would not walk away from a professional installation without certifying it. Why would you walk away from a patch cord without knowing...for certain...that it performs too?
I can make my own patch cables.
That's great John! Creating your own with solid copper is not a good idea, and creating your own with stranded copper is not a terrible idea IF you have the appropriate test equipment to be sure the patch cord works to the standard. Most people don't. A Fluke DSX-8000 with Cat6 PCA adapters (an add-on) is going to cost north of $14,000. With us, you don't need to have the fancy tester because we have more than few to guarantee a good cord.
I can see the frame errors in all my switches. NONE of my short or long bought cables have any errors.
If you do understand the standard and electronics (differential signaling), you understand how resilient the signals are.
But groupies, wanna-bes and ignorant people can have the honor of paying quite more.
I would welcome a real world speed transfer test to shut mouths!
Hello! I am glad to hear you have not experienced any issues. That said, I have personally experienced issues with poor-quality patch cords that caused a full channel failure and several million packet errors every 8 to 10 hours due to a capacitance build-up and discharge. The permanent link and the patch cord on the switch side were certified. After some hair-pulling, I removed and tested the patch cord on the remote side. The cord failed patch cord testing to the point that the RL was -5.9 dB, and the NEXT parameter was -3.9 dB. That was enough to cause an issue on the entire channel and the issue manifested itself not just through my Ubiquiti hardware reporting Tx and Rx errors, but dropped video frames and choppy camera feeds. Ethernet is indeed resilient, but don't be fooled. Sufficiently bad patch cords can and absolutely will ruin your day and maybe even your reputation if the chips are really down. You are free to decide how much roulette you wish to play and how important your time is to you when running down an issue. For me, personally, I would rather have a patch cord that I know works before I plug it in. Side note, I am Don Schultz, and I have a BICSI INSTC and INSTF certification in addition to Fluke Networks CCTT certification. No wanna-be here. /