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Theo[_3_]

wrote:

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.

Also multiple ethernet ports mean you can segment the network: not put the
doorbell on the same network as the banking data. You can do that on a
switch with VLANs, but to do that you need a more expensive switch.

Theo