RJ45 Patch Panel

[Reg]

I need a patch panel that takes an RJ45 input and feeds it
to 8 or more RJ45 outputs, straight pass through, sort of like a
passive hub I suppose. My supplier doesn't seem to get the concept
and keeps sending me units that require punch downs to connect
them up.

Can some kind soul provide me with a link for such an item?

Thanks.

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[Frank Stutzman]

Reg <reg@nospam.com> wrote:
> I need a patch panel that takes an RJ45 input and feeds it
> to 8 or more RJ45 outputs, straight pass through, sort of like a
> passive hub I suppose. My supplier doesn't seem to get the concept
> and keeps sending me units that require punch downs to connect
> them up.

Uhh, maybe I'm as dense as your supplier, but it seems to me what you want
is gosh, a RJ 45 patch panel ;-)

Take your average rj 45 patch panel with the 110 punch downs on the back
of it. Take about yard of cat whatever cable and rip the jacket off of
it. Take four pairs of cable you have left and snake it into all the same
colored positions and punch them down, using the non-knife edge of your
punch down tool (or the plastic freebe that comes with many patch panels).
What you are doing is runming one twisted pair between all the blue pairs,
one wire beetween all the green pairs and so on. Take your RJ 45 input
plug and put it into one of the jacks you just wired up. The signal from
that plug is now repeated on all the others.

Now, why are you wanting this? What I described works great as a cheap
way of replicating voice out to a bunch of places. Its pretty useless for
anything else that I can think of.



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Frank Stutzman

[Reg]

Frank Stutzman wrote:

> Now, why are you wanting this? What I described works great as a cheap
> way of replicating voice out to a bunch of places. Its pretty useless for
> anything else that I can think of.

Frank, thanks for the response.

That's exactly what it's for. I have 4 phone lines on a cat5 cable
with an RJ45 connector coming into an area. The drops are in the same
configuration. I'd like to distribute them just by plugging everything
into a patch panel.

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[wkearney99]

> That's exactly what it's for. I have 4 phone lines on a cat5 cable
> with an RJ45 connector coming into an area. The drops are in the same
> configuration. I'd like to distribute them just by plugging everything
> into a patch panel.

I had a similar situation and found nothing available on the market (at
least not at a reasonable price). My solution was to make them. I used a
four position RJ11 faceplate and a shallow mounting box. We used hubbel
cat5 connectors with 110-style punchdowns on the back of each. To that I
simply split out the cable from the wall outlet to the appropriate sockets.
These have been used reliably for about 6 years now during semi-annual
alumni contribution phone drives.

The upside of building them ourselves was the ability to make them in custom
lengths. This is important when considering how the cables will run from the
wall socket to the tables. Dealing with pedestrian traffic is important and
using cables designed to fit the right lengths helps avoid problems. That
and since they're based on components I can replace just a single socket or
cable without having to toss the whole assembly. As yet no repairs have
been needed to the boxes themselves, just the nearby wall outlets due
usually to someone tripping over a wire during setup/breakdown.

-Bill Kearney

[Frank Stutzman]

Reg <reg@nospam.com> wrote:
> Frank, thanks for the response.

> That's exactly what it's for. I have 4 phone lines on a cat5 cable
> with an RJ45 connector coming into an area. The drops are in the same
> configuration. I'd like to distribute them just by plugging everything
> into a patch panel.

Oh, well, in that case was I clear in my description? If needed I could
shoot some pictures of the panel I've got set up for voice distribution in
my house.

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Frank Stutzman

[Reg]

Frank Stutzman wrote:

> Oh, well, in that case was I clear in my description? If needed I could
> shoot some pictures of the panel I've got set up for voice distribution in
> my house.
>

Your description was perfect. I'm definetely going to try a version of
it at some point, but I needed to find a quick way to do it with off
the shelf stuff.

I found a good solution. Channel Vision makes what I'm looking
for, and it even has line seizure capability for an alarm system.

http://www.audiooutfitter.com/store/C-0436.html

Thanks again for your input Frank.

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