Sorry for a possibly dumb question. So I'm getting ready to wire my house up for gigabit in the next few days, and one guide I came across mentioned a patch panel being optional. That got me trying to ...

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The only 2 patch panels I've ever used myself have traditional punchdown blocks, and I have to say that I hate them. I find it difficult to work with the density, and I hate managing cabling in the ...

Depending on the scope of your requirements, Power over Ethernet (PoE) components can get pretty pricey. [Fire] wrote in to share a 4-port PoE solution he put together for under 20 euros (Ignore any ...