Fair enough... If I was doing it again I'd actually use fibre to link my 2 switches together then use Cat6 from there for long links and cat5e for shorter links (same room connections)..
As it was.. We had a million boxes of cat5e at work, so I just took one of them when I did my house.. a lot easier than paying...
I even managed to get a friend of mine to get me 100m of sheilded Cat5e for running a network lead down to the garage under ground
I must say though, I like netgear switches a lot, and if u have any trouble their tech support team is very helpful (Had a 48 port gigabit switch go down on us not too long ago and they shipped out a replacement straight away)
