kw123 wrote:How do you get them through the walls?
My server rack is in the basement. For everything on the basement level and first floor I run the cable along the basement ceiling and punch a hole through the sole plate for the cable. I cut a small hole for a low-voltage plate mount in the room, run a fish-tape up to the hole in the wall from the basement and pull a string back down. Then I use the string to pull the cable through the wall. For the second floor and attic space, I have a three-inch pipe that runs from the basement to the attic space and do the same steps but from above. Running the drops in existing walls was a complete character builder--but thankfully I only had to do thirteen of them.
For the spots that have multiple devices like the home theater, I use an 8 port switch on a single drop.