Anyone touching each other or all of these touching electrical wire? None of mine are touching electrical wire.
Good! Thus reduce throughput won't be effected on your network. I say if you can do it, go the route of dedicated each of your connected nodes (devices) to have their own Ehternet cable connections. I did that here and that made a huge difference. To much daisy chaining one single line then attaching switches to the main line in a chain causes throughput loss and etc effect.
I tried a single throughput test as compared to connected to the switch and I found no difference in the speed. Maybe my switches are just good. I don't know.
I have a ProCurve 1810-8g from HP switch. Look at the reviews of it. You will like it.
hey Tipster,
My first LAN 1991 was Proteon Token Ring cards. Cabletron Switches (believe they are out of business now) and they held a cabling class I Minneapolis.
They also cabled our LAN at the time.
Using 4 Catalyst 3750 48 POe now with ethernet, but I still watch the guy when he runs new CAT5. Getting too old to run cable in the ceiling myself, although I do in a bind.