If you wantto place a switch in those racks, it is hard to mount them anywhere.
If you want to place your routerwith wifi in the midle of the house it would be fine, but if you use your router as a switch then you cant.
I just hate those boxes with a passion cause the have been arround for ages.
One of my CEOs has one in his house in mandurah canals and it drives me bonkers when you want to connect 14 devices to the network.
No where to mount a 16 port switch in there.