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[CaptainZok]

It would look pretty and would stop UV deterioration, but the idea of standing on ladders with a heavy power drill in one hand, a screwdriver in the other, a mount full of screws, rawlplugs somewhere else, and of course a piece of trunking,  plus trying to hang on.  :-/   I would be inclined to get it over and done with as fast as poss. Even drill the holes from in side the room, so when up the ladder you have one hand free to hold on at all times.  

Ken

Yes I was planning on drilling the cabling holes from inside Ken, that sds drill is a bit of a lump to use up a ladder. Trunking screws piece of cake with an ordinary hammer drill, put hundreds of feet up in my time, and I now have an apprentice who I persuade to do stuff like that for me.

[TheBoy]

Ok next question, I've an 8 port 10/100 hub running the wired segment of my network now, if I replace this with a gigabit hub, run cable upstairs and plug this into another gigabit hub this should give me plenty of network bandwidth to connect four or five devices (pc's xboxes etc mainly 100 Mb devices) shouldn't it?

Some gigabit switches ain't that great (but better than 100Mb though).  The Netgear ones on the blue metal case seem OK for cheapies, the plastic ones not so good performance wise. My 3com is reasonable, but constantly kills its psu.

[CaptainZok]

Ok next question, I've an 8 port 10/100 hub running the wired segment of my network now, if I replace this with a gigabit hub, run cable upstairs and plug this into another gigabit hub this should give me plenty of network bandwidth to connect four or five devices (pc's xboxes etc mainly 100 Mb devices) shouldn't it?

Gigabit will probably be overkill, TBH. The bottleneck will be the incoming broadband / cable connection. Unless you need very fast access between devices within the house I'd keep it 100Mb.

Remember, each device will only use the network in "bursts" so most of the time the connection will be idle.

Kevin

Good point Kevin, was only thinking gigabit as both media centres have gigabit cards built into the mobos so I thought it would give more bandwidth to stream to the media extenders and speed up internal transfers along the network.

[TheBoy]

Ok next question, I've an 8 port 10/100 hub running the wired segment of my network now, if I replace this with a gigabit hub, run cable upstairs and plug this into another gigabit hub this should give me plenty of network bandwidth to connect four or five devices (pc's xboxes etc mainly 100 Mb devices) shouldn't it?

Gigabit will probably be overkill, TBH. The bottleneck will be the incoming broadband / cable connection. Unless you need very fast access between devices within the house I'd keep it 100Mb.

Remember, each device will only use the network in "bursts" so most of the time the connection will be idle.

Kevin

MCE and extenders can use some fair LAN bandwidth...