So it's been an long time since I've updated and I owed a shout out to Matt A. Matt, this update's for you. Keep the RSS tubes warmed up.

When we bought our house, we were fortunate to have a builder that hired someone to run the right cable. CAT5 for telco/data, RG6 for video, etc., all home run back to the mechanical room in the basement. There were a few bad decisions here and there, but mostly it was done right. I insisted on doing the finish work myself, and about 3 years ago, this is what I installed...

A basic wall mount rack, a punch panel for the CAT5 wiring and some F-Connectors to patch video. Of course, most of the video lines went direct to the DirecTV switch, so there wasn't really any "patching" going on. Fast forward to this December, the addition of a new server and the need to patch in some new data jacks quickly, and I decided to revamp the rack.

This is what I ended up with...

I can highly recommend Parts Express (http://www.partsexpress.com) and Cable to Go (http://www.cablestogo.com) for all your household networking and video distribution needs. Now I sit back and wait for my endorsement check to come.