I couldn't tell you what it costs. I get it directly from the suppliers as "samples". I would think you could pick it up at EECOL Electric, or some such company.
Same as the termination tool that fotze was talking about. Gotta love "samples"!
Cat 6 is just a much better wire, and as performance requirements and information flowrate increases, Cat 5e will become more and more obsolete.
Belden has this new wire called "10 GigX" (or something, can't quite remember) and that'll be taking over Cat 6 soon enough, I think.
Someone above mentioned fire rated cable. I don't see how that would be necessary. Just an added unnecessary cost, unless you're wiring for your fire alarm, or an area that must be kept intact for as long as possible during a fire. Your average computer or theatre doesn't fall under that scenario, I wouldn't think, unless you really, really wanted to finish reading all the CP threads before running away from the fire.
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