What are some good online sources for Cat 6 cable and pass thru connectors?

[Larry Caldwell]

I'm about to get fibered in Mississippi. By this fall the local power company expects to have the infrastructure to my door so I can get 100 Mbps up and down. Compared to the present 7 down/0.7 up.
So I want to start wiring my sheds

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so I can put up a bunch of security cams and access points.

Since the sheds are metal I know I'm going to have to do a lot of hardwire. To that end I'm planning on at least. 20 runs of cable so I figure a box of Cat 6, 1,000 feet will get me started. All runs will be exposed inside and there are no tight bends so I was figuring solid versus stranded.

I haven't had to buy raw cable for decades. Where is a good place to order from?
I'll probably be putting it together with Klein pass thru connectors and tool. Darn, I wish they had that 20 years ago.

I went with 5e direct burial, which will support up to a gigabit. I bought from Platt Electric, a wholesaler in the PNW with distribution stores in most towns. They were glad to set up an account for me so I could get the discount. Ask around where electricians and cable guys get their supplies.

 

[newbury]

But you asked for advice on what to buy and you didn't take our advice?

I took James advice (thank you James) on the cable. Hopefully it will be delivered next week. I had already bought the Klein crimper & a 10 pack each of Klein Cat5E & Cat6 connectors because I've got some cabling to do in Alexandria Va.
Either my older eyes or muscle skills made it much easier to do the few connections I had to fix, or maybe it was the ease of pass through cables.
I used to greatly dislike making cables, especially when I was in a SICPS in the field.

 

[MossRoad]

I took James advice (thank you James) on the cable. Hopefully it will be delivered next week. I had already bought the Klein crimper & a 10 pack each of Klein Cat5E & Cat6 connectors because I've got some cabling to do in Alexandria Va.
Either my older eyes or muscle skills made it much easier to do the few connections I had to fix, or maybe it was the ease of pass through cables.
I used to greatly dislike making cables, especially when I was in a SICPS in the field.

I wired a newspaper with 500ish workstations several times in my earlier career. Started with thicknet and serial cables. Updated to thin net. Converted to Cat3 and then Cat5. Plus all of the phones twice, the last being to VOIP. I don't know how many thousands of RJ45 connectors I put on the ends of wire, but many times my fingers were in pain by the end of the day. It would have been nice to have the passthrough connectors.

 

[BravoXray]

Yep, those pass through connectors are great. Why weren't they invented 20 years ago?

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, those pass through connectors are great. Why weren't they invented 20 years ago?

Same reason my parents got a riding lawnmower and a snow blower after I moved out!

 

[BravoXray]

Same reason my parents got a riding lawnmower and a snow blower after I moved out!

Makes my fingers hurt just thinking about wiring those d@#n things.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I would be working on my Wi-Fi solution . I would not be wiring for CAT 6 in 2022. That was what we did 20 years ago.

I don't know of any stranded cat 6 wire, it is all solid as far as I know. But again, why run wire?

Amen! Twenty years ago I ran Cat 5 to every room plus some extras, in my house. Cable cost wasn't outrageous but the labor certainly was for me. Not too long after I had certified every connection, every outlet were all correct and I considered the job done, here comes WiFi. That essentially made the entire project obsolete.

WiFi boosters are definitely something the OP should be looking at first.

 

[newbury]

Amen! Twenty years ago I ran Cat 5 to every room plus some extras, in my house. Cable cost wasn't outrageous but the labor certainly was for me. Not too long after I had certified every connection, every outlet were all correct and I considered the job done, here comes WiFi. That essentially made the entire project obsolete.

WiFi boosters are definitely something the OP should be looking at first.

Did you read that the OP (me) is:
Running POE equipment
Essentially wiring 4 separate but connected Faraday cages and was only asking

I haven't had to buy raw cable for decades. Where is a good place to order from?

(and as the title say connectors)

I don't know of a WiFi booster that makes it through 26 gauge steel siding or enables one to run power.

 

[kcflhrc]

I use the same Platinum Tools PN 202003J connectors on CAT 5E, CAT 6 as well as CAT 7 and never had an issue. They do make specific connectors for each type of cable but I have never seen a need to use them and never had a failure.

 

[BravoXray]

Amen! Twenty years ago I ran Cat 5 to every room plus some extras, in my house. Cable cost wasn't outrageous but the labor certainly was for me. Not too long after I had certified every connection, every outlet were all correct and I considered the job done, here comes WiFi. That essentially made the entire project obsolete.

WiFi boosters are definitely something the OP should be looking at first.

I've run CAT5E and some CAT6 cable to most of the rooms in my house in the last few years, and I really don't like having everything on WiFi. I just don't really trust WiFI, it seems like sometimes it will work and sometimes it doesn't. Besides, I can see every neighbor's WiFi within 500-700 feet, so I know they can see mine. I have connected the smart TV's, a smart DVD player, computers, NASes and my 3D printer with cameras on it to the network and they work all the time. I even have the cable modem and switches on a UPS so if power goes down I can still use the network.
When I built my shop back in the 80s, I ran an RG6 cable to it from the house in case I wanted to watch SAT TV down there. Never did hook up a TV to it, and a while back I wanted to put a Raspberry Pi 400 computer on the desk, but I would have to run a cable from the house. Then I remembered the buried coax I had never used, and found a pair of transceivers that run Ethernet over coax. I bought them and hooked them up, and get a 100Mbps connection to the Pi. So with a monitor and mouse I had laying around, I can look up info or order parts from the shop. I am also going to put a wired surveillance camera down there too. I was surprised the regular old RG6 coax was still intact after over 40 years in the ground, but it tested just fine and works great.