Monoprice 2-Gang Wall Plate for Keystone, 12 Hole - Ivory
BEST ANSWER:Monoprice have many types of toolless jacks.I found that items 1039 - 1044, 5622 and 5623 are all use small lever for termination and are WIDER than regular keystones. They would not fit in my patch panel, though they did fit Leviton and LeGrand wall plates oOK. On the other hand, The new cat-6 jacks I received in Red and Blue, which seemed not to be listed anywhere are standard width and fit everywhere.
BEST ANSWER:Monoprice have many types of toolless jacks.I found that items 1039 - 1044, 5622 and 5623 are all use small lever for termination and are WIDER than regular keystones. They would not fit in my patch panel, though they did fit Leviton and LeGrand wall plates oOK. On the other hand, The new cat-6 jacks I received in Red and Blue, which seemed not to be listed anywhere are standard width and fit everywhere.
I have experience in using the standard punchdown keystones and I bought these for potential time savings (and my nice punchdown tool was lost in the move). I much prefer the punchdown jacks as opposed to these as the way these are laid out are very different to the ones I have used previously. All the wires are in a line as opposed to 4 being on one side and 4 on the other, which made wiring a bit difficult and then, locking them into place was also difficult. This did not come with instructions at all so if you do not know what to do or how to use these, you'll have to go back to this website. Probably would not use these again and ended up buying the punchdown type at a local store for considerably more money.
I accidentally bought these for a business office job and decided what the hey I'll give them a try:
Mirroring what someone else said, it you have "adult sized fingers", but I would say "normal sized fingers" and not baby fingers, then getting CAT6 UTP wires to stay in both wire crimps on the lid is next to impossible. I spent 15 minutes getting the wires in, tried pushing the lid back on to the metal shears on the other side, and then some of the wires popped out....I cannot put in enough expletives how upset over much time I wasted on ONE. I tipped the ends of the wire I absolutely needed with an 8P8C, ordered some regular ones, and returning these. 0 stars would be appropriate.
For those of us with grown adult sized fingers, these are a pain to use. inserting the wires and clamping it shut is a serious headache. I'll be returning all but one from my order and getting proper 110 punchdown units.
Pros: don't need a punchdown tool.
Cons: difficult to get wires aligned, poor connection reliability, doesn't trim wires.
Great but providing a tool for this part it iconic to say the least
Easy to use installation. While it's not truly tool-less, it does not need a punch down tool to force the wires down. It comes with a plastic lever to create the required force to squeeze the 'tool-less' snap-coverplate onto the wires. Similar to other keystone jacks, works well, used this model for a few years with no failures.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I had a heck of a time trying to get the pairs to stay down and be crimped with the built in crimping tool. I just ended up buying the regular keystones.
