As to STP vs UTP, there are times when it's necessary, but you'd almost never hit that in a campus or building environment. However, if you're installing outdoors without a metal conduit, I'd ...

So I inherited a 1000 ft spool of CAT6 STP cable. Not wanting to spend money to buy more cables I would like to try to use this spool to make patch cables for a home network however I have only worked ...