You might find the odd bit of unreliability if the connections work loose or
something, but apart from that it sounds pretty firm. I would personally go
with a RJ45 box at each 'station', and then run Cat5 from each to the
previous one as you plan - leave the one most commonly used wired in
permanently, and then tack the cables from the others up so you can just
daisy-chain as needed.
Another option, which isn't actually that expensive now, would be wireless -
you can get some cheap and not too bletcherous radio LAN devices (something
like 100 USD for a base station and two cards or something), wo you could
leave the base by the hub and just keep the radio card in the laptop. As
long as you're running Windows, no problem. There's probably support in
most other OSes, but sometimes it can be flaky.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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