Hi allI am currently having a first home built via a house/land package, and have been provided with a proposed electrical/wiring plan by the building company. This has motivated me to read up a little on networking matters, which I am not overly familiar with. I thought it would be useful to get some thoughts from others on this topic. I have attached the electrical plan for your reference. The house is a very basic, small one-level 145sqm house. I assume we will be able to get fibre internet to the location. The house will most likely be occupied by four adults (flatting situation) who mainly use the internet for browsing and streaming videos (we are not going to have a LAN for sharing downloaded movies or anything fancy like that). We do not intend to have any media devices in the living area (only in the bedrooms) - however this could possibly change in the future if we decide to have a communal viewing area. It would be great to hear people's thoughts on the following:- Given the small size of the house, is it likely that a single wireless internet transmitter would be sufficient for the entire house? It would be quite convenient to store this in the "Store" cupboard near the entrance.- Given that the users of the house are likely to use the internet for browsing/streaming only (rather than gaming etc), is there any real need for any wired ethernet outputs? or is wireless internet likely to be sufficient? - Is it possible for there to be "too many" devices for a single wireless transmitter, such that speed would be compromised? It is important that four devices can stream HD video simultaneously with no issues.- Is there any real need for a telephone output these days? Some people have suggested to have one "just in case" - but I cannot foresee any instance where I would ever need one, as I only use cell phone / internet for communication. It therefore probably makes sense to either reject the telephone outputs, or swap them for additional ethernet outputs (and I think the wiring is the same for ethernet or telephones anyway..? So I could just change the end-connector if ever needed?)- Assuming that I do decide to have ethernet outputs around the house (rather than just relying on WiFi), would the simplest wiring set-up be: (1) cables go from each room (RJ45 jackpoint) to a distribution box in garage where they terminate at a RJ45 connector and plug into Router; and (2) Drill a hole to the Store cupboard and have a small cable connecting the Router to the wireless transmitter in the Store cupboard.- Is there anything else I should be thinking about / asking the building company? (who will presumably liaise with an electrician contractor in due course). Obviously there is endless opportunity to set things up perfectly when building from scratch - however I am a fan of simplicity, and if all I need is a simple wireless transmitter, then there is no need to go over the top! Many thanks
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