[somat]

The 8 pin modular connector as found in most ethernet does have several sins but it has one huge redeeming feature, A feature I wish was found in every cable. It is easy to field terminate. Have fun putting a new end on nearly any other cable.

[tlb]

Field termination is necessary when the connectors are too large to pull through a conduit. But if they were USB-C sized, you could just pull fully assembled cables.

[Someone]

It also comes in very handy when you need a 8m cable, but only can buy them in lengths of 5m and 10m, or when you’re wiring an entire building, and figuring out which lengths to order up front is a major pain in the ass, certainly compared to ordering a few hundred meters of cable, a few hundred connectors and tools to put the two together. And that’s ignoring the price difference.

[ssl-3]

As a person who has installed hundreds of miles of cabling of every description inside of buildings of every description:

Every single time someone has provided pre-terminated cabling for one of my jobs to "save time" or to "make it easier", this provision has done neither.

Instead, it has consistently multiplied both the time required and the installation difficulty. It has done these things while also producing an inferior end result.

It is my anecdotal observation that it's NFG.

[naruhodo]

I have no idea what kind of cable it was, but the bloke who installed the control panel for my ducted air conditioning got the cable snake stuck in the wall cavity. He had to cut it and use a different snake. So there's a dead snake in my wall, and your comment brought this to mind.

[goalieca]

It’s also about managing length and slack.

[fragmede]

except those assembled cables will always be the wrong length.