Network switch on one port of a router?
Depends whether super duper high speed is needed on all ports at the
sometime of course.
As for cable routing. Well, I'd not really like running network cables for
long distances near coax as things tend to leak and cause interference
effects. Besides, its so easy to damage existing cables by trying to get
just one more through the same holes!

Brian

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I want to route ethernet cable to a few rooms in a fairly small house.

Taking up floors is not an option because of wood flooring and I don't
want visible cable although routing cable around skirting boards may be
the easiest eventual solution.

There are aerial points in the house and the cable is routed within the
plasterboard wall of the timber frame house.

If the coax cabling is successfully dropping from the attick to the ground
floor through the wall (and from the attic to other rooms) I am guessing
that there is a clear channel within the plasterboard walls which in
theory I could squeeze the ethernet cable into.

Has anyone done this?

Presumably I would need an ethernet router in the attic to split the
single feed cable from the main modem/router into individual feeds.