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Sorry for a possibly dumb question.
So I'm getting ready to wire my house up for gigabit in the next few days, and one guide I came across mentioned a patch panel being optional. That got me trying to figure out in what circumstances they would be useful.
I am putting 3 outlets into the house, each with a 4 jack wallplate on them (though I only have a 8 port switch so they won't all be wired up, but I don't have more than 6 devices that can even be hard wired anyway). I'm planning on running this cable up through the wall, into the attic, then down into a hole in the laundry room ceiling and into my gigabit switch that'll be resting on a shelf near the ceiling. I was planning on terminating the cable with an RJ47 plug and going straight from wall jack into the switch.
The only vague reasons I could find to use a patch panel was because of cable breaks, which didn't totally make sense to me since you have to have another cable anyway to go from the patch panel to the switch.
Can anyone give a good reason why you would or would not use a patch panel?
Thanks,
So I'm getting ready to wire my house up for gigabit in the next few days, and one guide I came across mentioned a patch panel being optional. That got me trying to figure out in what circumstances they would be useful.
I am putting 3 outlets into the house, each with a 4 jack wallplate on them (though I only have a 8 port switch so they won't all be wired up, but I don't have more than 6 devices that can even be hard wired anyway). I'm planning on running this cable up through the wall, into the attic, then down into a hole in the laundry room ceiling and into my gigabit switch that'll be resting on a shelf near the ceiling. I was planning on terminating the cable with an RJ47 plug and going straight from wall jack into the switch.
The only vague reasons I could find to use a patch panel was because of cable breaks, which didn't totally make sense to me since you have to have another cable anyway to go from the patch panel to the switch.
Can anyone give a good reason why you would or would not use a patch panel?
Thanks,