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Yes me too, but for a modest home, with a gamer (or 2) a CAT6 network with switches won't be a problem. As @Alphonsox says its the broadband that will be the bottleneck for most of us.

Errr just be careful with that statement ..!! The Fibre connections from Virgin aren't that clever, and the coax plugs they use for the final metre I've seen very badly finished. Yes a coax has more conductors but they are prone to the centre core being snapped if not properly terminated. I would go as short as possible to the hub and if you want to get the most of the connection to the switch then use a CAT6 patch cable to the switch with 5E to the rest.

I would leave your modem/router near to the BT master socket to maximise your broadband performance. If there aren't enough ports to run lots of cat5 you can add more ports using a cheap switch. They are just plug and play like a USB hub, no programming of set up needed. Eight port switches are around £30. You can also chain these together to minimise the number of wires if necessary. For example the following is possible.. modem---switch (downstairs)----one Cat 5 cable to----switch (upstairs)---several cat 5 cables to----several PC and or wifi access port(s). If you don't want to run any wires around you could use Powerline adaptors to get from the modem to a wifi access point in the middle of the house. Edit: Oops somehow I missed earlier posts suggesting switches.

I was pleasantly suprised at how solid feeling my lining came out. No apparent "compression" problems at all. It's all as firm as. Mind you I'm using actual insulated plasterboard. The insulation seems denser than that in Celotex. You'll have to bond your plasterboard to the (foil face?) of the PIR, with what I don't know.

Friends, Romans - country men (by which refer to all countries where like minded individuals reside) don't forget that we are up now to CAT 8 (almost - but likely to be different connector and not backward compatible) and CAT7, bright green colour favoured, is common. Don't be fooled though because the transmission standard for CAT6 (10GBase-T) means CAT7 will be no faster. It has the advantage, while being a bit more costly, in that the shielding is better - you can run it more intertwined with other cables and get away with it, fewer lost packets, and it has a larger copper cross section this allowing the PoE to work a bit harder. If installing now the lowest standard should probably be CAT6 (or 6a) which has 1Gbs data performance (CAT 5 is 10Mbs (5a 100Mbs)) so 10 times a quick as CAT 5. Also in your discussion above remember that switches (true switches) allow you to set them up with different QoS (Quality of Service) offerings to the various stations on the network. In this way you can give the PS4 gamers a better connection, less latency / contention / speed to WAN at least around the house, than the iPad browser. As things stand cabled connections will be faster than WiFi and QoS over wifi is a bit more of a dark art. If you have a larger home then consider pulling through some fibre connections, packet loss immune but limited to 10GBase-T speeds if using converters - if your router / switch has fibre ports these will be faster, between switches and fan out in CAT6/7 from there. Finally in what might be helpful to others of our vintage, me not you, its worth recounting, as you pull though your CAT7 cable to your sons bedroom for his PS4 / XBOX and stretch every sinew to give him a great connection, that our son moved out of home to get a faster broadband connection - result (but don't tell his mum I said so)!

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