Andy Hall wrote:

Being cheap, mainly.

;-) yup, buy a cheap patch panel and use pre made patch leads - life is
to short otherwise!

However, I have seen cheap wrongly manufactured outlets and patch
panels where the connector labelling is simply wrong - being neither
T568-A nor T568-B. Where wiring was done using patch panels and
outlets from the same manufacturer, all was well - it was consistently
wrong.

Even consistently wrong can be dodgy since you can end up with all the
right connections made but not using the matching halves of the twisted
pairs. So you end up with wiring that may run fine at 10mbps and fail at
100 etc.


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Cheers,

John.

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