[Malvern] Re: OT: Networking advice please.

[Richard Forster]

Glad to see it worked.

I doubted you'd need a patch panel if the cables were long enough to all 
  go to a switch. It's not like you'll be re-organising your network all 
the time and want wall-socket-A to go to router-B today but maybe to 
router-C tomorrow. If that were the case then a patch panel would help 
combat the rampant Etherspagetti[1] syndrome.

Rick

[1] Which the spell checker wants to replace with Witherspoon!!


Darren Beale wrote:
>> | --- Tester bit A ---| -- (standard patch lead) -- | ----- Wall point
>> ---- | -------(cable in wall) ---- | Newly wired RJ45 plug  or patch
>> panel if I can get one | ---- Tester bit B ----|
> 
> This worked.
> 
> In the end I just pulled a wallpoint apart to see how it was wired and
> copied it.
> 
> Not sure I can be bothered with a patch panel, I'll just plug the
> wires straight into a switch.
> 
> D
>