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| 564886 | 2007-07-01 23:15:00 | My friend refurbished his house and installed Network cables to every single room of his 'new' home. Paid him a visit yesterday and 'inspected' the new installation. :D Found he is using 'patch panel' to terminate all the cables at the box where he has the ADSL router, phone line, etc. What is this 'patch panel' doing here? :o How does it work? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 564887 | 2007-07-01 23:19:00 | A patch panel is simply the other end of the cables in the other room. Normally you would have a switch/router and your modem nearby. You can then use short patch cables to route the network where you like. Many people also route their telephone with a patch panel. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 564888 | 2007-07-01 23:40:00 | My friend refurbished his house and installed Network cables to every single room of his 'new' home. Paid him a visit yesterday and 'inspected' the new installation. :D Found he is using 'patch panel' to terminate all the cables at the box where he has the ADSL router, phone line, etc. What is this 'patch panel' doing here? :o How does it work? The patch panel is merely a tidy way of organising the "other end" of the cables going to the other rooms. You could achieve the same thing with a whole row of network sockets, however, you can guess that it will take up a lot more space than a patch panel. Patch panels don't do anything special, other than holding all the sockets which the cables are wired into. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 564889 | 2007-07-01 23:41:00 | Am I right to say that it is just a block of connectors? | bk T (215) | ||
| 564890 | 2007-07-01 23:48:00 | yep its where all those wall outlets terminate then you can conect all rooms to each other using a switch or hub (switch is reccomended) then to your server, adsl modem etc |
beama (111) | ||
| 564891 | 2007-07-02 01:56:00 | The patch panel is merely a tidy way of organising the "other end" of the cables going to the other rooms . :lol: Pretty much most of the patch panels I've ever worked on have been a nightmare of spaghetti . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 564892 | 2007-07-02 01:58:00 | :lol: Pretty much most of the patch panels I've ever worked on have been a nightmare of spaghetti. That's usually the patch cables, rather than the patch panel isn't it. :p My point is that a patch panel is better than a) having a whole heap of cables coming out of the wall with plugs terminated on the end (I've seen this done before!!), or b) having a really big row of normal sockets on the wall. |
somebody (208) | ||
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