On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 06:18:22 -0800 (PST), TimR
wrote:

I bought a roll of Cat 5e to extend my network.

Maybe I stretched it out wrong, but it's remembering those curls and is very hard to run straight anywhere.

Is there a trick to this?

I've run it from the router area (put a surface mount and a jack on it) down into the basement, but getting it neatly to where I want it is a challenge due to the curl.

It is better if you take it out of the box and put it on something
that acts like a spool. Then you are not putting a twist in it every
revolution coming out of the box