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Hasan Can Saral
Asked: 2020-11-26 07:32:51 +0800 CST

Patch panel with J45 Cat6 female/female connectors very fragile connection

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I have a patch panel with the following female/female CAT6 RJ45 snap-in connectors in my cabinet:

rj45 cat6

It basically serves as a pass-through for the cables at the front to the cables at the back and vice-versa.

The problem is, these connectors are extremely fragile, and if I want to connect two cables at the back via this patch panel (i.e. two of the connectors above is used):

CableBack1 -> Con1 -> CableFront1 -> Con2 -> CableBack2

to connect CableBack1 to CableBack2, the physical connection gets very fragile (I literally need to adjust the positions of the cables to get a connection, and it mostly doesn't work anyways).

So my questions are:

  1. Am I having a problem because I might have a different kind of connection (e.g. crossover, etc.)?
  2. Is what I'm doing wrong? Is there a better way to achieve a clean front/back connection?
networking rack cat6 rj45

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I did the cabling myself so I was sure of the quality of wiring. But it was definitely the poor quality keystone jacks (in the picture). Replaced with these:

    digitus keystone

    and the issue is resolved.

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