Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn't need any of that stuff anymore." The article wasn't about networking, or even technology, but I was struck by that statement because it was echoed by several people when I was explaining that I was running many thousands of feet of cable in OSNews' "house of the future." "Is all that cable really necessary now that there's wireless everything?" people said. As much as I respect Martha Stewart's business and design acumen, neither she, nor those people who talked to me, know what they're talking about. When it comes to networking, there's no substitute for a wire, when a wire's available. -- This is the latest entry in our 2008 Article Contest. 
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Kokopelli is correct. You get full Ethernet bandwidth between the pairs of devices. But you need to use a little common sense, if there is only one cable between two switches and you run five sessions through that single cable the bandwidth is obviously going to be shared. To fix this add more cables and alternate paths.
Old Ethernet with coax was a bus like 802.11N and powerline. With old Ethernet only one device could talk at a time. In bus networks there is no way to add alternate paths. With old Ethernet you used hubs instead of switches.