Networking?

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

Wireless is always simpler.

-Mike

Answer 2

undo what you did. and go back to normal :D

Answer 3

I think you already know what to do. If the walls are still open, bite the bullet and do it the proper way.

You'll thank yourself later even it causes some more work and aggravation now.

Answer 4

Networking should be internal to the house, there's no reason to run cable all the way to an external box.  The standard method for networking is to have a central location where all wires meet (your panel) so that you can locate things like routers/cable modems/etc there, as well as any battery backup or power requirements.