(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best patch panels

It's only twice as expensive if you get ripped off. I pay $75-$100 for 1000 ft of CAT6.

Also, your network drops are 100% useable for landline phone using RJ45 jacks. You just make a patch cable with an RJ45 plug on one end and an RJ11 plug on the other (to go from the wall jack to the phone), then go from your patch panel where all your lines terminate to a telephone distribution board. It's better practice to use a patch cable between the wall and the device as opposed to using a different wall jack.

Something like this might work if you're looking to bolt to the wall. Keeps some space between the wall and the patch panel so you can manuver cables around and such.

edit - amazon link

I would use this guy. Punch the wires down. then use patch cables to the switch.

$80 from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FRJ1B02/

Networx 16 Port Fully Loaded F-Type Coaxial Patch Panel - 1U ?

Yeah... I have no idea how to stop that outside of totally remounting the hardware. I could do something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/InstallerParts-Mounting-Bracket-Network-Terminations/dp/B008NXJIJU for the patch panel and then ... I don't know about the switch... crap

Do you want both Ethernet and Phone on the same cat6 cable run? If not, then this is easy. An Rj-11 connector can be plugged straight into the RJ-45 jack. Just get a phone block (something like https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-47603-12B-Telephone-Distribution-Board/dp/B001UTCSI2/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=leviton+phone+module&qid=1558124763&s=hi&sr=1-8 ).

Then you just connect your line from the telco to the block and then run some RJ-11/RJ-45 patch cords between the block and your patch panel.

Now, if you want to run POTS and 10/100 Ethernet over the same cable (cannot do 1000, it uses all 4 pairs), then you need some Frankenstein-cables on each end that breaks out a pair for voice, 2 pairs for ethernet, and 1 unused pair.

> Coax->Modem->Switch->14 cables in wall. Is this correct?

It has to go Coax->Modem->Router->Switch. Comcast will run Coax to your desired modem location, which in this case will be the wiring cabinet. If they can't, no big deal, you'll just need to use one of the installed Ethernet lines to connect the modem to the router or the router to the switch, depending on whether you put the router with the modem or in the wiring cabinet (I'd recommend the latter).

Since you're already thinking of getting UniFi access points (absolutely the right choice) you should get this router and this switch. It's only 16 ports, 18 if you count the SFPs, but you only have 14 lines anyway.

You'll terminate the cables at a patch panel. It's not hard to do, you just need something to strip the cable jacket and a 110 impact punch down tool to terminate the wires. You'll get a bunch of short patch cables to connect the switch to the patch panel, get the shortest length that'll reach. You don't want to skip the patch panel and put RJ45 plugs on the installed cables as it's much more difficult to do right than punch-down terminations and subjects the cables to more damage.