[SOLVED] Should I use plugs or jacks forwall plates?

[Pyneappel]

I'm adding some low voltage wiring to my house including RG6 coax and CAT6 ethernet. It seems that the coax cable in the wall is usually terminated with a plug and a passthru connector with a jack on both sides is used on the wall plate. For ethernet, I see both styles of wallplate keystones used; ones where you would terminate the cable in the wall with a male connector and then use a passthru female/female keystone, and also female keystones that you would directly punch the wires onto. Any pros/cons on which termination style is better for the cable in the wall? the single female connector might be a bit more robust (?). the passthru would probably be more flexible in changing out wallplates?

 

[bill001g]

All depends on your skills putting ends on the cables. For most people using keystones is easier because you can do just 1 wire at a time rather than trying to keep 8 lined up as you crimp it. You can also pull 1 wire out and redo it on a keystone.
If you can get a end crimped on without too many bad ones it will be cheaper than using keystones.

In the end it will mostly be which way do you prefer doing it.

 

[Pyneappel]

In the end it will mostly be which way do you prefer doing it.

Thanks. I ended up using female keystones on the first four. I'll see about the others later.

 

[gggplaya]

I use punchdown keystone jacks, it's much easier. Crimping ethernet is more prone to failure than punchdown jacks.

Terminating coaxial cable is easy and hard to screw up if you have good quality tools, cable and connectors. So passthrough makes sense for that.