Ethernet for a home network

No. There is no reason whatsoever. There was also no reason to pay for CAT6A.

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Eathernet for a home network

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How often do you eat her net?

Walls are down to the studs. Running one switch out of the master bedroom. Its no harder to run all the lines than it is to run one. I'd much rather have just one switch to worry about.

Make sure you run drops everywhere you may put a tv.

You will thank me later.

Just keep in mind, you will probably need wifi too, not just cat 6. And with ac standard, its going to be close to cat 6 speeds.

It would be much cheaper just to buy a really kick arse wifi with a repeater.

But anyway, I prefer wired. You will love it for things that have an ethernet jack.

I have no other advice.

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How many switches can you have on a network? Is there a limit? I have two and plan to add another. Multiple devices (tv, roku, xbox, etc.) in multiple rooms. Wifi sucks in home so its all wired.

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As many as you want. A switch (in general) is a L2 device. The only thing is that if you're connecting a switch to another switch, you may need a crossover cable instead of a straight-through ethernet cable. This is going away with new switches, they can detect the connection. And if your switches don't support that, you can get a crossover adapter from monoprice or wherever for a few bucks.

Also, a switch runs just like your wired drops, each device attached to the switch is it's own send/receive domain. It's not like old hubs. IE, you're not competing for traffic anymore with a say 4 port 10/100/1000 switch connected to 4 devices as you would with 4 drops connected to 4 devices.