Ask most people what Ethernet is good for, and they’ll talk about speed tests. I ran Cat6 through our basement and up into the ceilings, and the benefit I lean on most never shows up in a Mbps reading. Four ceiling-mounted UniFi access points and three Echo Hubs on my walls get their power over the same cable that carries their data, fed by one switch in my basement network rack.
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