Itīs not overdone in the sense that I have all sorts of extraneous cables jsut to make it look *****in. It is more than most people would need in their houses, but hey, If your going to go, you may as well go all out :D
My 48 port hubble patch panel is quite handy, because I have a ton of cat5 runs in my appt., and this way, I can easily patch the various locations into the appropriate switch.
I have a lot of LAN parties at my house, and lots of my buddies bring two computers, and use one just for web browsing and icq, while they want a fast connection on one to transfer files and whatnot.
The patch panel makes it cake to switch people around from switch to switch.
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