Cat8 is very rigid and hard to work with. For my house backbone I used multi-mode fiber (OM4) cables which are much easier to work with and support up to 100 Gb

Cat8 is very rigid and hard to work with. For my house backbone I used multi-mode fiber (OM4) cables which are much easier to work with and support up to 100 Gbps for 150m (https://www.fs.com/blog/om4-multimode-fiber-faq-highspeed-connectivity-guide-9498.html#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Maximum%20Data%20Rate%20that%20OM4%20Fiber%20Supports https://www.fs.com/blog/om4-multimode-fiber-faq-highspeed-co...).