Best/most reasonable cat5e cable?

[Andehh]

I am looking at centralising a lot of my AV /network gear and will therefore need a good 150m+ of networking cable.

I'm gunna give crimping it myself a go, and have bought the right tools, but now I'm struggling to find acceptable cable.

The most it will be used for is modem to router, router to network switch and network cables for general inter et ready devices, then a few runs for hdmi over cat. Nothing too extensive!

Can anyone suggest reasonably priced, shielded, cat5e? I'm fed up of dodgy eBay reels and the gamble most look to be!.. Thanks

[Andehh]

Thanks guys.

Only reason for shielded was when we turn the bathroom extractor fan on and off, the TV in the bedroom (running off 2xcat5e to hdmi from sky box downstairs) flicks off then on again!

I figure the power cable obviously runs near these cat5e (cheap-o ones) and is causing issues, and shielded might reduce this?

[Andehh]

Keeping the separation may be tricky in some areas, especially when chasing it into walls.

is there any benefit to using the shielding without terminating them into shielded connectors? Same again into non-shielded appliances (as I imagine all of mine are).

[Andehh]

Thanks for the comments guy, on a whim I checked the price of cat6 cabling and it isnt half as bad as I thought it was - no more then 15% more expensive really.

I can't see myself needing more then cat5e for the foreseeable future but if its only an extra £10 for the cable drum then I might as well go with it. I understand it is more delicate then cat5e but is there anything worth knowing prior to buying it?

Specialist plug needed? Backwards compatibility? Installation requirements etc?

Thanks again.


edit to add; Main use will be internet to devices (max internet available to us is fibre @ 30mbs), then sharing the Sky box between rooms via HDMI-over-twin-CAT cable, and providing internet to Fire TV box in each room. Then a cable or two spare for future devices (network enabled AV amp etc)

So in total looking at 4 cables to bedrooms, prob 5 cables to the lounge & snug, along with a coax cable to each place back to the loft.

Edited by Andehh on Wednesday 9th September 13:13