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Are there any disadvantages to switching from a punch-down distribution box to an RJ-45 one?
My house is wired for Ethernet, and it uses RJ45 jacks wired with Cat5 cables for POTS. I have no use for POTS, and I’d prefer to repurpose those jacks as additional Ethernet jacks. The Ethernet and telephone cables all end up in a central wiring closet, and the telephone cables are wired to a Channel Vision C-0438 distribution box:
To make it easier to repurpose cables (by disconnecting them from the distribution box and connecting them to an Ethernet switch, or vice versa), I am considering replacing this distribution box with a Channel Vision C-0436, which uses RJ-45 jacks. Would there be any disadvantages to this?
(As far as I can tell, each telephone jack in the house corresponds to a cable connected to the distribution box, so I don’t think any of the cables are spliced.)
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