HCHTech
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I was "resurrecting" a spare office space for a client of mine who will be using it temporarily while their space is being remodeled. The previous tenant took most everything when they left. There were 3 24-port patch panels hanging from the ceiling where their equipment rack used to be. Anyway, in toning & testing out the various runs, I came across an odd symptom. Every line terminated to one of those patch panels tested as having pins 3 and 6 shorted. Every one. I re-punched down a handful of the runs, but they didn't look wonky at all and it didn't change anything. I also looked into each port on the front looking for bent or crossed pins - again, everything looks ok. I put a RJ45 jack on one of the lines and it now tested correct. I've never seen a patch panel short like that before, but they're cheap enough, so I'm not going to waste any more time on it. Weird, that's all.