joining ca5 cabling between floors

["frankjones2928" <frankjones2928@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm wondering what the best way to "join" cat5 cabling is.

Basically, I have all my cat5 coming into the house from node 0 which
is in an out buidling.

Half of it is for downstairs, and the cables go directly to the cat5
wall sockets.

The other half is for upstairs. This is going up into the loft. At the
moment, the cables (20) are unterminated.

What I want to do is run new cabling down from the loft to the sockets
in each room upstairs, and then join that cabling to the cabling
coming up from downstairs.

One obvious way is to connect both sets of cables to patch panels, and
then use patch cables to connect them. It seems a bit of a waste of 20
patch cables, but i can make them easy enough I guess.

Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks
Frank