CableWholesaleRJ45 Strain Relief Boots, Green, 50 Pieces Per Bag

Great value

I just used these on an installation and they worked fine. I would recommend this product and I would buy them again.

In themselves, these boots seem fine: the fit closely over standard cat5 cable, and make a *very* snug fit over an 8P8C connector. They're very unlikely to slip off.However, their external dimensions are such that connectors fitted with these boots WILL NOT FIT into adjacent slots on several popular items of home networking equipment, as they protrude into the space occupied by either the adjacent sockets, or the hardware case:1. I tried to connect four cables with these hoods fitted into a Netgear router, and had to remove the hoods from alternate cables to get the plugs into the sockets.2. Even a single cable fitted with this hood will not fit into my Motorola cable modem, as it collides with the casing on the back of the unit. I spent a lot of time (admittedly, not much money!) re-wiring my home network and moving equipment around, to find that these hoods make some connections impossible in much of my hardware.

I bought these along with some plugs to crimp cables of arbitrary lengths at home.Because, they're boring old cable accessories, they come in a ziplock baggie, without instructions or tools.I made a 1 foot cable, remembering to pop these onto the cable before I crimped.They stay on just by friction, holding onto the plug.The color is like 'shamrock' from the crayola colors listed here ([...]).Only with your monitor all dimmed out.I saw another review complain about the width of theirs.I was able to plug them in just fine between my zte gateway and asus dark knight wireless ap.Hope you bought some shamrock green cable to match.I didn't. Mine is gray, like the sea after a storm.But, the matching gray were 2 dollars more.I did wonder if there's a magic way to fuse/weld the end to the cable so they don't move, like a commercial cable.But, then I got an E_OUTOFCARING exception and moved on.

Once that little "tang" breaks off of your RJ45, it's useless. The cat-5e cable will pop out once that tang is missing.This boot helps prevent the tang from breaking off. Whenever I create new cat-5e patch cable, I always slip this on to prevent "tang breakage." This works both on riser cable (solid copper) as well as stranded copper too.