I just moved into a new house and am in the process of wiring the house for ethernet. I am planning on running 2-4 drops to each area that needs them, with an HP ProCurve managed gigabit switch connected to the router in the basement.
A few areas of the house are going to need more than 4 ports, such as the living room, where I'll need a minimum of 8. I was planning on running 4 ports here and installing an 8-port switch. Is there likely to be any appreciable performance loss on a home network with this kind of setup? Primarily with regard to latency and gaming performance, as I doubt anything else would be negatively impacted enough to really notice.
A few areas of the house are going to need more than 4 ports, such as the living room, where I'll need a minimum of 8. I was planning on running 4 ports here and installing an 8-port switch. Is there likely to be any appreciable performance loss on a home network with this kind of setup? Primarily with regard to latency and gaming performance, as I doubt anything else would be negatively impacted enough to really notice.