Cabling advice

[stuvwxyz99]

Hi

I'm buying a new apartment (small NYC place), and I'm looking for some cabling advice. I'll probably have an electrician pull the cables and install the plates, but I want to have an idea of the correct design. I have attached the floorplan, along with the location of various devices. The location of the router is also where my media cabinet, TV, etc will be. I plan on sticking the router and modem in or on top of the media cabinet.

My main question is. Should i make one run from there to each of the other locations and then have a switch at each of them? Or have a switch next to the router, and then make two runs from there to each of the two locations.


Apologies if my terminology is not correct, pretty new to this.

I guess I am not allowed to embed pics, so here is a link to the floor plan.
[the old link died, here is a new one]

http://i41.tinypic.com/nywl3.png

 

[overdrive31]

Without a doubt use two cables per outlet for redundancy then you can decide on your own what you will do about the switch locations.

 

[stuvwxyz99]

Thanks Overdrive. That makes sense, so I will make two runs.

How about the switch location(s)? Does either permutation make more sense than the other?

 

[overdrive31]

It depends on how many devices need connected at each location, start with a switch next to the router, when the demand for more ports arises add a switch where it's needed.

 

[stuvwxyz99]

Thanks again. That also makes sense to me.

 

[GregN]

I don't know if you are interested but you can find cheap (< $100 ) used 24+ port gig managed switches on Ebay, going with managed would allow you to aggregate connections or if you need QOS and logging in the future.