Router plus switch plus patch panel.

Swordfish

Swordfish

Swordfish

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Hi folks.

I am about to set a network for someone who runs a small charirty (hence I'm doing it to keep costs down) and the building they are moving into has been hardwired with cat 5 cable to a patch panel.

My quesition is this

If I connect the router to a port in the office and then connect the switch to the corresponding port on the patch panel and then all the other ports to on another between the patch panel and switch will this be the correct method.

Switch and router are one floor and several hundred metres apart.

I have set up hundreds of small networks using routers and switches but never a patch panel.

Cheers


EDIT : Router is a BT Fusion and patch panel is 24 port
 
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Put the switch near the patch panel or in the cabinet itself it it's in one. Connect the devices (PCs, printers) to the cat 5 floor ports, wall ports or however the building is wired. Run the corresponding cables from the patch panel to the switch. Do the same with the router and it should be good. You might have to use the uplink port on the switch but probably not if everything autosenses.
 
No manual left by installer of patch panel and it does not have dedicated uplink so it must autosense. Its a decent cabinet so I'll put switch in beside it.

One other thing would you go for a schema with dedicated IP's or let DHCP handle it?
 
I see no reason for static IP's, other than making more work for yourself.

I haven't seen an unmanaged switch with an uplink port for a long time, everything is auto-sensing these days, it would seem.
 
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