Patch Panel setup?

[wsg14]

Hey, quick question (hopefully)

I want to run Cat5e cables to a few rooms in my house. My main computer is in the basement, beside my furnace room. In my furnace room is where my modem and router are. I would like to setup a patch panel, and from there send out a bunch of cat5e cables to the various locations. I'm not looking to send the cables to an RJ45 jack, I'm just going to cut a hole in the floor where they pop up so i can pull the slack to fit my needs, etc.

But what sort of equipment am I going to need? Of course I'm going to need x amount of cat5e cable, and a patch panel. But what else? How do I make one cat5e cable coming from my router expand in to the x amount that are plugged in to my patch panel?

 

[jlazzaro]

sticky, post #1 http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2053136

I'm not looking to send the cables to an RJ45 jack, I'm just going to cut a hole in the floor where they pop up so i can pull the slack to fit my needs, etc.

no, you want to terminate the solid core cable to a terminating jack and use a stranded patch cable from there. anything but is extremely sloppy and asking for trouble.

How do I make one cat5e cable coming from my router expand in to the x amount that are plugged in to my patch panel?

you need a port on your router/switch for each active patch panel connection. each run will be hard wired into the back of the patch panel, then connected from the front female rj45 to a switch/router. if you don't have enough ports on your router, you will have to buy an additional switch.

 

[wsg14]

So my modem is a built in router, with 4 RJ45 ports. So connect three of those to the back of the patch panel (open up the cables, stirp them, etc.) and then connect the fourth to a switch and then connect those to the patch panel.

Then run the cbales to the specified places and connect them to a wall jack?

 

[wsg14]

Alright, I've selected a bunch of items and now I'm going to run by how it's all going to be set up

modem: x1 cat5e cable > 8 port switcher: x5 cat5e cables > patch panel: x5cat5e cables > all cables are going their own way to different rooms > RJ45 wall jack

Thanks!