On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 15:03:42 UTC, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
To my mind, there's always a power supply at every data outlet and when
a 4 port Gigabit switch costs less than £20 there's little point in
running loads of extra wire.

OTOH Cat5 cabling is useful for so much more than ethernet - analogue phones, cctv, various audio/video over Cat5, etc.

Having one cable and relying on a switch at the end requires everything to me converted into ethernet, which can be expensive.

Owain