There's not a whole lot of benefit to bringing multiple Cat5e data cables to one location. If the owner ends up with multiple pieces of equipment at a location, it's easy to use a $20 switch to support multiple data connections. Cat5e will support a full gigabit trunk connection, which should be plenty of bandwidth for pretty much any conceivable residential application. (Excluding those who decided to set up a web hosting company in their home, but that's a whole 'nother animal.) Multiple Cat5e cables might simplify things slightly by allowing all the switching to be done at one, central location, but not having multiple cables doesn't rob you of any capability that you would have had with multiple cables.
