Decent speeds right?

Having worked in tech support I feel that I’m fairly sympathetic to the tech support worker that I’m dealing with.  I’m even fairly patient with them as they run me through the battery of tests that I’ve already done on my own(rebooting everything, doing a factory reset of the router, testing the wired connection instead of wireless).  What gets me is when I eventually get on the state of waiting on something that we can’t work on in that call, I eventually have to call back and get a new person.  This new person generally doesn’t read the logs of past interactions(or maybe the logs aren’t complete), and so I have to run the same battery of tests and they have to make thier own diagnosis.  Maybe there’s a Houseian aspect of tech support where “Everybody lies” when talking to tech support and they want to try to double and triple check when possible.

Looking around for a bit, I eventually found a mini wiring cabinet in the garage.  Turns out all of those RJ45 jacks are connected to a OnQ Phone Punchdown.   After a bit of research, I believe that this problem can be “fixed” by splicing the cable before it hits the punchdown, attaching a patch panel both to the punchdown and walljacks, then using patch cables to connect each jack to either a switch or the phone punchdown.  Looking at MonoPrice, I can probably do all this for about 60 bucks(I already have a switch).

The main worry that I have about this plan is having network equipment in a non-climate controlled garage.