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I am being told by the manufacturer that it is advantagouse to instead of putting a RJ45 jack on one end of the cat5e and plug it into the switch/router at my centeral station to feed the jacks at the wall, to instead

Use a cat5e punch board, punch the end of these wires into that, and run factory made patch cords to send the feed from the switch/router to the patch panel.

Is that really the case.
Thanks Dan_Ocon.
I have learned form your comment. But, if my modem, router, and switch are in my centeral location box, with home runs from every jack to this location the RJ45 plug at this end of the wire is in the box and all the wires are protect.

Therefore even less chance of plug getting damaged than the plug at the jack on the wall.

So should I go my way, or are there other advantages to the punch board.

We have a punch down block at my work. We have all these cables punched down to it, but the cables go into the ceiling, some of which were cut, and are just up in the ceiling going many yards into other areas through out our large building. The problem we have is, we cannot just pull these wires off the punch down block because we dont know which goes where. The people who worked this IS department before us messed everything up. Anyways, this punch down block that I’m talking about is used to telephones. The facilities people use cat5 for some reason. We would use a tone generator to put one end on one end of the line, and the tone generate where the “dead” lines are on the punch down, but like I said, all these wires are up in the ceiling and duct work from all the remodels through out the years. They didn’t take time to label anything, and re-install this same cable into the phone jacks on the walls, instead assuming it would just get newly reinstalled lines. Any good ideas?

Our network is currently made up of all cat 5e components. We are adding new office space and I was going to wire the new addition with cat 6 components just because it’s newer. (Not that we really need it) I was wondering if cat6 can be punched into the existing cat 5e patch panel. I want to leave the existing wiring alone for now. Also, can I use the cat 5e RJ-45 connectors that I currently have for the cat 6 cable and can I use the same crimping tool that I currently have that is for cat 5e? The only physical difference that I could see is that the cat6 uses 23 awg wires and the cat5e uses 24 awg wires, which is a difference of about .0025″.

I’m trying to activate the CAT5 ports in my house and I bought a patch panel to punch down the CAT5 wires into. I don’t want to spend another $50 on a tool. Is it possible to punch down the CAT5 wires into the patch panel using my fingers? or just another thin-pointed object and shove the wires into the patch panel?

I just got this tool from China today and I need to attach the 8 Cat5 wires to the receptacle of a wall plate/keystone jack that I also purchased. This tool did not come with any instructions, does anyone know how to use it? There are no moving parts on it as far as I can tell, no scissor-like cutting, crimping, nothing.

I have a bunch of loose cat5 cables that are not connectorized to the RJ45 connectors. I’m looking for a patch panel, where I can punch down the little colored wires, and hook up the panel to modem. Please help. Thanks.