Instant upgrade to round fat cables. Made running them from 1 room to the other along the wall easy. A must have if you want to run multiple lan wires

Updates 11/19/20
Both cables cat 8 50ft and 3ft cat 8 working weird but it turned out to be my ax 1500 overload. I didn't even download anything big the last few weeks except development tools mx linux update, ide, python libraries,java ide, etc. After reboot it is alright again. Lesson I learned is, i need a better router that could pump out more bandwidth. On my other distro on centos 8, i removed the ip link thinking that something messing it up but losing the ethernet connection. Now i have to reconfigure it again.

UPDATES: I actually bought a 50 ft and a 3 ft. Will buy more!

Thank you for the nice item. I recently upgraded my Internet service to 400 Mbps 2 days ago. Before that my service was 100 Mbps. It is hard to simulate the pre-400 Mbps service. I didn't keep record (screen captures) and if I did they are somewhere. I like the flat cable because it is easier to setup. I can tape it to the wall and it can go below the door without the worry of ripping it up. Simply amazing. I am hoping it will last and for the price, it really worth it. What I need is to get a 2.5 Gbps LAN card. Look below for the Pro for these cables.

100 Mbps service

Wi-Fi
With just Wi-Fi, I am mostly between 60 Mbps to 100 Mbps depending on distance. At 5ghz is is faster obviously but with 2.4 ghz sometimes it fell below 60 Mbps or around 20 to 30 Mbps. However, with 2.4 ghz, I am getting a greater distance thus I it is suitable for my IOT devices. I also have AC1200 extender I am using at my garage.

Ethernet
I was connected to AC1900 extender using cat7 with AC1900 connected to AX1500 through wi-fi.
I was consistently getting between 80 Mbps and 110 Mbps.

400 Mbps service
Download and Upload speed varies every time you are testing them due to various reasons.
Wi-Fi
ac1900 extender, 5ghz, wi-fi alone - 106.6 Mbps, 19.5 Mbps
ax1500, 5ghz, wi-fi alone - 178.1 Mbps, 19.0 Mbps
The day before I was getting above 200 Mbps consistently but today it is 170 Mbps to 180 Mbps. I simply paid for the upgrade service online and waited for the router to reboot itself. The process was around 4 to 5 minutes or so.

Cat 8 - Smolink
ac1900 extender, 5ghz, cat 7 - 413.9 Mbps, 23.6 Mbps
ax1500, 5ghz, cat 8 - 489.4 Mbps, 23.6 Mbps

I am planning to get a 2.5 Gbps LAN adapter and at least an AX6000 router (with DDOS protection, WPA3 and other good stuffs) and above. Someday in the future I will upgrade to 940 Mbps service. They said they don't have a contract so you can turn it on and off. With 2.5 Gbps and security features, I could run my web server and other servers with less worry. Now, I need to upgrade my own firewall device using RPI4.

Update: 12/1/2021
These cables are still running great. I haven't upgrade my router yet because of the strong signals. However, I might have to upgrade them now since I am planning to add 11 new security cameras and 14 security devices around my house and compounds. I bought them during Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals from Amazon, Woot and Sam's Club. My current router even with the extenders might not able to maintain consistent bandwidth with so many devices.

This does the job. It's also easy to mount to the wall, I just wish it came with the mounting pins (like another cable I ordered from a different seller). I like the flat design as opposed to the older round cables. The performance is as expected for a Cat8 and I've had no issues or calculable differences in upload/download speeds with this replacement.

Perfect packing, best quality cat cables I have ever purchased

works great