Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Lamb wrote:

A gentleman from America was explaining how he had run 4 cables to each
place he was likely to have a TV.

This could easily be 4 sites here plus the PC in the office. Do I really
need 18 separate cables?

Probably not, it sometimes handy to run two cables to a location so
you could connect e.g. a smart TV and a set top box, but for anywhere
with more devices than that, a small switch is easy enough to "split"
the ethernet any number of ways.



If you're running cat5, 100Mbs, remember that a single cable can be
connected to give 2 independent outlets. If you want to upgrade some to
Gbs, then the two outlets can be recombined very easily.