Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
Yes, but that implies you always originate near the cable modem box, which is fine for internet, but not so much for sharing media, where a PC DVR might be in the master bedroom, and you need to distribute out to the other bedrooms. You'd have to route traffic back to the router, and then distribute it out from there, which might be okay but I can see circumstances where that may not be desirable, especially on homes with multiple floors.
So doing a "home run" is not really future proof, only internet future proof.
I have DVR's in 3 rooms in my house. All of my wiring is home runs from wiring panel to rooms. A network hub connects all computers, DVR's, Network storage etc. My phone/DSL line comes from the NIB (network interface box) to my wiring panel. My sat. feed come from the roof mounted dish to my wiring panel. The sat. cable and OTR are diplexed into one feed to all DVR's and sat. receivers (I don't do HD except via OTR.)
It's like a recirculating water system everything flows all around the hose from the central "pump" through patch panels, cable combiners, switches, etc., etc.
I can see media gateways distributed through out the house at some point but I think they will all talk to each other across the stared wiring. That is of course my opinion and this being flyertalk, YMMV.