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This is a practice run to see if I can insert a picture. The pictuure is of a current project I am wworking on.

pic looks good but are those cables long enough ?

Cool, I did it. Now here is what it is. There are a total of 163 Cat5 cables hanging out of the ceiling the longest being 18 inches give or take. They have all been cut off nice and neat to the same length. In other words at one time they probably had enough length to work with but not now. My job is to get the 63 white ones connected to the 66 block and the 60 blue ones connected to the patch panel. There are only enough 66 blocks to connect 48 cables and the PP only has 48 ports. The picture doesn't actually show how short the cables really are duee to the upward angle I had to shoot the pic from.

Sparky...Well done my friend, you keep us in business.

Merrit, In answer to your question:

Not even close

On the Cat 5e side--I don't see how you can keep the same patch panel and stay sane. I would get Leviton jacks inserts, with a Jack Rapid and terminate all of the cables that you want to---Sharpie on the sides of the inserts. If you can mount blank patch panels up close to the ceiling -- then it won't look too bad. Just snap in the terminated inserts in the appropriate blank holes. If you just can't get a patch panel mounted--use finger duct and plug your patch cords in the inserts inside the finger duct...??? Won't be the best but it will work.

The stuff going to the 66 blocks --well---unless you want to do a lot of scotch locking (very ugly from what I am seeing in the picure)---you're going to have to mount new blocks to terminate the cables--then cross connect to your existing blocks.

I'll ask my head tech what he thinks tomorrow morning. Maybe by that time you'll have some other ideas. Good Luck.

Any way of pulling slack from the other end, someone needs to have their cutters taken away.

Don't you guys have cable stretchers in your vans?

Wireless!

John:

I have some AT&T CAT5 extender blocks. They are basically a tiny plastic box that houses a single 110C4 clip. They work really well for applications like your. I have plenty of them that you can have cheeeeeep if you are interested.

You could mount 110 hardware starting from the ceiling. That should give you enough termination for the voice. I believe they make cat5e 110 with special patch cords that have 110 on one side and RJ45 on the other for the data. Just a thought.