OSULugan
Senior member
I'm about to set forth in wiring my 2-story house for Ethernet. I have an attic and a crawlspace available, which I expect will make the wiring within a floor fairly straightforward. Rather than wire the entire house to a single switch, I was considering running cabling on each floor to their own switch, and then dropping a line between the two switches. I figure that this might be cheaper for initial setup, and certainly cheaper/easier should I need to run another drop in the future.
1) Is this a good idea, or should I just run everything to a single switch? Is the cost savings really there? Asside from the extra cabling, does the saved labor cost now (and in the future) out weigh the additional switch cost?
2) Any recommendations for switches? I figured unmanaged 10/100/1000 switches, but as I'm thinking through it all, I'm wondering if there are options to allow for multiple connections between the switches (in case of traffic saturation going inter-floor), or if there are switches that have a single 10Gbps port for setups like this?
1) Is this a good idea, or should I just run everything to a single switch? Is the cost savings really there? Asside from the extra cabling, does the saved labor cost now (and in the future) out weigh the additional switch cost?
2) Any recommendations for switches? I figured unmanaged 10/100/1000 switches, but as I'm thinking through it all, I'm wondering if there are options to allow for multiple connections between the switches (in case of traffic saturation going inter-floor), or if there are switches that have a single 10Gbps port for setups like this?
