Which way would be better to wire an Xbox 360 for Live?

Question

My roommate and I want to get hooked up to live. I came up with two solutions. One is run a cat5 cable through the wall, under the basement stairs through another wall and into the router. The other way is make wall jacks in both walls running the connection under the stairs and getting two shorter cat5 cables to plug into the wall jacks. My question(s) is which is more doable and cheaper? We are sort of on a budget, but willing to spend some money on this project if we have to.

Answer 1

My kids are online with xbox live with the 360 and i just ran a cat 5 from the router to their room, they have not had any problems what so ever. GL