ᐅ Network outlets – anything special to consider?

superzapp schrieb:

Strange to spend 500,000 on the house and land, and then try to save money by choosing cheap network sockets.
That doesn’t make any sense, does it?

Maybe not, but it’s still common: the extra costs for the recessed eight-jet rain shower with gold-leaf grout and the hand-crafted Meissen clinker bricks have to be offset by cheap discount windows.

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hanse987 schrieb:

The Krone LSA tool is really good.

What are the tool-free RJ45 connectors actually for? I hope not as a replacement for patch panels.

Yes, I skipped the patch panel for this, go ahead and criticize me . Seriously though, it was about connecting 3 ports to a 5-port switch, and in that case, a patch panel seemed a bit excessive to me. Also, I wondered what advantage I would have gained from it besides higher costs; the data speed wouldn’t have improved.

I had 25m (82 feet) of cable, which was more than enough. I still needed patch cables from the patch panel to the devices. Of course, with more ports, I would have used a patch panel for easier organization and so on.

Hi, but if you use connectors like these (they work very well...)

SteffenBank schrieb:

Yes, I skipped the patch panel for this, go ahead and criticize me . Seriously though, it was just about connecting 3 ports to a 5-port switch, and I really thought a patch panel was a bit overkill. Besides, what advantage would it have given me other than higher cost? The data rate wouldn’t have improved.

I had 25m (82 feet) of in-wall cable, which was more than enough. I still needed patch cables from the patch panel, though. With more ports, I would definitely have used a patch panel for better organization and so on.

Why should anyone criticize you? It’s your installation after all.

The in-wall cable should always end at a fixed point to minimize cable movement. With only 3 cables, I would have also skipped the patch panel and used two LAN dual outlets instead. This is mainly to prevent cable damage. Usually, two dual outlets don’t cost much more than three high-quality field-terminated connectors, if at all.

Well, using junction boxes would have been an option too. But the cables don’t move; the switch is mounted under the ceiling on the wall, and no one can reach it there. At the endpoints, I do have junction boxes, so the cable doesn’t run directly to the device.

But please do not use the connectors to connect a Unifi access point. There is not enough installation space, and additionally, the cable is too stiff. With three cables, this can be done well. Not improper.