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<blockquote data-quote="twdcmd" data-source="post: 969468" data-attributes="member: 94200"><p>You would think that having good continuity on all your wires would be good enough, but that's not always the case. I don't think you current setup will work as it is (you're probably thinking electrical, connect all the wires and power flows over all of them)...not sure I completely have my mind wrapped around it, but if you have one wire run to the location of the router and one wire run to each of the 3 computer locations, you're good there. They should be punched on individual locations on the patch panel (not sure if you have it that way or all 4 punched on one by your description). Unless you want to then run 2 more CAT5's to the router location, I would buy a cheap 10/100 switch from geeks.com or newegg and locate it at the punch down. Connect all 4 from the punch down to the switch and I think you'll be good.</p><p></p><p>Make sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="twdcmd, post: 969468, member: 94200"] You would think that having good continuity on all your wires would be good enough, but that's not always the case. I don't think you current setup will work as it is (you're probably thinking electrical, connect all the wires and power flows over all of them)...not sure I completely have my mind wrapped around it, but if you have one wire run to the location of the router and one wire run to each of the 3 computer locations, you're good there. They should be punched on individual locations on the patch panel (not sure if you have it that way or all 4 punched on one by your description). Unless you want to then run 2 more CAT5's to the router location, I would buy a cheap 10/100 switch from geeks.com or newegg and locate it at the punch down. Connect all 4 from the punch down to the switch and I think you'll be good. Make sense? [/QUOTE]
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