I used this phone cable for a home run DSL setup. I was getting low speeds at the modem until I went with a home run. I decided to use this cable and I'm very happy that I did. Cutting into the cable to access the wires was a little bit difficult. My signal is perfect now. I don't know if running a lower quality cable would have given similar results but I didn't want to run it twice so I went with this more expensive option.