Home networking panel?

Question

Have I made a costly mistake, changing my mind and going with a Home networking panel setup, rather than running wires (cable, telp, and cat5e) all the way to each outlet, straight from the boxes outside the house.

When I looked at the home networking panels, they looked like a big splitters to me, source in, distributed out to various locations. That is what it looked to me.

But, now I read about patch panels, swithes, hubs, etc.

Should I take the hit, and since the walls are still open, foget about this, and do home runs of all wires, to every room, all the way from outside boxes.

Appreciate your answer

Answer 1

It depends. If you are talking about flower looping (basically you take one long wire and run it through every room), then I would make a home run every time. Now, when you are making a home run, make it to a place in your home. For example, wire a cat5e or cat 6 wire to the outside (for Fios Support only) and run it to a closet. Then get a patch panel, and run wires to every room from the patch panel. If this is internet we are talking about, then connect the wire from the outside of your house to the router, and connect wires from the router to the path panel. Please keep in mind that when is say the wire from outside, I do not mean take a wire that has been buried in the ground, or stealing internet. That wire is simply used to connect to the ONT (Optical Network Terminal) from the ISP (Internet Provider). Hope this helps.