I get the feeling at the level that the OP is looking to run at, a 16 channel snake will be more than enough for the job. I have a 100' one and found it to be about 50' too long. I don't mind snakes as they seem to wrap fairly easy and quickly. Even the 250' 32X8 splitter snake I had to deal with a lot isn't that bad. Granted a couple of ethernet cables are much lighter and easier to deal with though. However I had a show where we had 2 300' ethernet cables that were running with many other cables in the show. It was not fun to separate them and took just as long and as much work as the much more durable multicore snakes.