Great Fandango
Novice Member
Hopefully a simple question and one which I think I've already answered...
Im about to network the upstairs of a friend's house before he plasters and decorates. He's looking to have 5 network wall sockets: 2 in front bedroom, 2 in back bedroom and 1 in loft.
Would you:
(a) run 5 individual cat 6 cables up to the first floor from the main gadget cabinet in the living room and utilise a 16 port network switch to link them to the array of gadgets downstairs?
or
(b) run one (or possibly two?) cables up to first floor and then branch off to the five sockets using a 8 port network switch located upstairs?
Each bedroom will have a bedside socket (for laptop or Squeezebox etc.) plus a head-height socket for a media streamer.
The loft is for future expansion (perhaps another NAS or Home Server stored nicely out the way).
Many thanks
Im about to network the upstairs of a friend's house before he plasters and decorates. He's looking to have 5 network wall sockets: 2 in front bedroom, 2 in back bedroom and 1 in loft.
Would you:
(a) run 5 individual cat 6 cables up to the first floor from the main gadget cabinet in the living room and utilise a 16 port network switch to link them to the array of gadgets downstairs?
or
(b) run one (or possibly two?) cables up to first floor and then branch off to the five sockets using a 8 port network switch located upstairs?
Each bedroom will have a bedside socket (for laptop or Squeezebox etc.) plus a head-height socket for a media streamer.
The loft is for future expansion (perhaps another NAS or Home Server stored nicely out the way).
Many thanks