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Re: joining ca5 cabling between floors



frankjones2928 wrote:

> 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?


If it's always going to be a 1:1 connection, just use a krone style
punchdown block...

Jim



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