Do you use a patch panel?

[kd5mdk]

One thing to keep in mind is that if you’re going to be poking around where your cables are, having some sort of strain relief is important so you don’t accidentally make a good connection intermittent. Or just pull it off. . So if this is a switch where some cables are permanently mounted and others are being plugged any unplugged as needed you’ll probably want either a patch panel or strain relief bar to tie them to to.

Also the callout about not crimping connectors onto solid core cable is really important. There are “field termination plugs” intended for that use case but there expensive, only good for this purpose and it’s much easier to just do a proper punch down then.

 

[tigerwillow1]

Al ethernet runs are solid cat6 and using RJ45's on those are not recommended which is also my own experience.

Also the callout about not crimping connectors onto solid core cable is really important.

I'd like to know more about this recommendation. I've got close to a hundred RJ45s on solid wire, using connectors spec'd for solid wire, with no problems whatsoever except for those that were my own error.