Originally Posted by
DHawthorne
Personally, I home-run everything and use a wire landing board. I would rather not have to deal with compromised wiring issues bringing down the entire loop, and wire is cheaper than labor (and extra labor in the wiring stage is cheaper than troubleshooting labor). Even with a loopback, you still have to take every junction apart to find and isolate the break - what if the data line is shorted by a drywall screw? A loopback won't fix that unless you take the bad stretch of wire out.