Fewer wall warts = win. Just need some xbmc friendly PoE media players now. CEC HDMI one end, cat 5 the other. Yeah, Wifi is lovely but a right pain for streaming bluray.

Shame there is no mention of the backplane speed, although I suspect it will probably be 16GBps…..I do have a couple of TPLink switches and they have full-speed backplanes, something not all the cheaper kit has.

If an 8 port switch is overkill I can recommend the TP-Link TL-SG1005D 5-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Desktop Switch for around 12 quid, been working great for over 1 year

a bit late for anybody reading this 2yrs ago, but yes, it has a 16Gbps backplane…