This is a paid review on EBusinessCables Cat 5e/ Cat 6 cables. As stated on the campaign page, EBusinessCables is a supplier of ethernet cables for home, business, government and education where multiple colors are available in bulk.

Brief Introduction to Cat5e/6 Cables

Oh boy… Lets hope my knowledge I acquired during my networking course back in University time still stand true, here is some brief information. Cat 5e and cat 6 cables are special type of cables that mainly used in data transfer. They uses twisted pair cabling technique which is cheaper compare to fiber and coaxial cabling. Cat 5e is different from cat 5 in the sense that 5e has included specification for far end crosstalk. Cat 6 while provides backward compatibility for cat 5 and 5e, it does more by providing speed of 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) and even possible to meet requirement for 10000Base-T (10Gigabit Ethernet). This may sound overkill by today’s standard, but if you look at current trend of how people using data transfer for movies, games and entertainment, that 10Gigabit Ethernet may not be that overkill anyway.

Website Review

Ok, so what can we find on Cat 5e/ Cat 6 cables page? Well, we can see lots and lots of cat 5 and 6 cables featured on the product catalog. I cannot imaging that you will not find the right combination of cat 5 and 6 cables that you need given the vast large combinations available. Lets see, we get to choose from various length of cables, type of cables (cat 5e/6), colours of cables as well as type of cabling shields (UTP/molded boot/cross).

See Details link, while useful if you want to see a bigger picture of the product, do not provide more useful information, only the same information is display. See example below for yourself. I guess some additional information such as other available colours, length or packaging can be provided.

The website is a little plain for my liking. A blue/grey and white colour scheme is adopted which is clean and not overwhelming. But I found that they lack a feature: a compare function which enable users to select multiple products and do comparison side-by-side. I found that this will help users to make better selection in purchasing the correct product that suit them.

One more thing I found not too user friendly is the long list of product under ONE page! For example, on the Cat 5e/ Cat 6 cables page, there are 108 products listed on one single page. I don’t know about you but I found that I lost interest after looking through like 20-30 products. So if the webmaster can put just 20 to 30 products in one page and the others on page 2,3,4….last will make navigation simpler.

Once you have made your decision and put the amount of items that you like, you will be redirected to CartServer.com to select your destination and method of courier. From the same page too, you can manage your shopping cart such as increase, decrease and remove your product selection. You can preview the total amount before checking out. After you press the check out button, you will be redirected back to EBusinessCables.com to view the terms and conditions which you need to agree before you can proceed further. From there onwards you will be sent to CartServer again, you can select the payment methods, which I think pretty covered almost all popular methods. Here is a screenshot I take:

Conclusion

I found that EBusinessCables’s cat 5e/6 page contains many selections of cables. Users are pampered with choices. Each product is clearly labeled with pictures. Payment methods pretty much covers all popular methods online. However, some improvements can be done, such as a more professional done theme for a more serious look, a next page navigation because currently too many products listed on a single page. Hope the webmaster will take note to make this already good website to a better design.