Hi Philip, my experience is: if you offer more bandwith, they will use it! Nowadays most people need advice to upgrade their backbone from 100 to Giga... So my advice is: - buy a cheap GigaNIC (Copper, 32 Bit PCI) for your Server(s) - buy a good switch, 10/100 MBit, with GBIC-Slot or Copper-Gigabit uplink - buy a cheap (used) Hub with 10BaseT and 10Base2 - only use Cat6-cable (for Giga) for the new wiring, nearly no extra charge to Cat5 (only 100 MBit) - Think about technologies like vlan, Voice over IP, Power over Ethernet - don´t invest money in the wrong cabling - If you have to deal with elektrosmog, use fiber Advantages: - Your fileserver and "main" switch is prepared for the future - You can easily remove your coax "room for room", using the Hub at the end of the coax Greetings Thorsten ----- http://bynari.dbtec.de