Just had a meeting with the low-voltage contractor on the new house I'm building.
After laying out all of the Cat6 drops in the house, I started to talk patch panel, but this guy really didn't want to hear it. He insisted I would be better off crimping the home end of each run with an RJ45 and leaving them in the can, plugging them into what I need.
That sounds like a more 'limiting' solution than a patch panel to me, so by the meeting's end we decided that he would leave a lot of service loop in the enclosure, and I could terminate as I pleased.
My questions for the 'real' experts on the forum:
1. Is he right? Should I just crimp them to RJ45s?
2. Can *I* (never done it before), punch these all down to a patch panel? (YouTube makes it look pretty easy, I'm just wondering if it's not so simple in real life, etc...)
3. If I do decide to do it myself, I worry about cable management a bit. Cutting these things to the perfect length sounds unlikely, and in the videos I've seen they're always doing this on a table. Doing it with wires hanging out of the wall will likely be a bit different. Can you usually just terminate these things at the lengths that are hanging there, and stuff the slack back out of the can into the wall?
4. Anyone have any recommendations on a good Cat6 Patch Panel for inside of an enclosure?
Thanks!
After laying out all of the Cat6 drops in the house, I started to talk patch panel, but this guy really didn't want to hear it. He insisted I would be better off crimping the home end of each run with an RJ45 and leaving them in the can, plugging them into what I need.
That sounds like a more 'limiting' solution than a patch panel to me, so by the meeting's end we decided that he would leave a lot of service loop in the enclosure, and I could terminate as I pleased.
My questions for the 'real' experts on the forum:
1. Is he right? Should I just crimp them to RJ45s?
2. Can *I* (never done it before), punch these all down to a patch panel? (YouTube makes it look pretty easy, I'm just wondering if it's not so simple in real life, etc...)
3. If I do decide to do it myself, I worry about cable management a bit. Cutting these things to the perfect length sounds unlikely, and in the videos I've seen they're always doing this on a table. Doing it with wires hanging out of the wall will likely be a bit different. Can you usually just terminate these things at the lengths that are hanging there, and stuff the slack back out of the can into the wall?
4. Anyone have any recommendations on a good Cat6 Patch Panel for inside of an enclosure?
Thanks!