I’ve retired an old house and new built from scratch with cable to every room.
In both cases actually ended up using a hybrid model because even if you get cable to a room it’s only any use if it’s actually in the place you want to use it.
Cable used in
living room (AV kit)
Kitchen (AV kit and ground floor WIreless point)
Office (printer and computer)
Plus cable to a basement workshop access point (steel/concrete between that and ground floor) and to a wireless point mounted high and central on top floor.
None of the Ethernet points get used in the bedrooms
I've had some wires in our house for a while, and added when we did our kitchen extension recently. Cable under floor of living room to cupboard under stairs, where I have a few devices and a switch. 1 cable up to loft from switch, another to kitchen. Another cable goes out to the shed (CNC & 3D printer etc). The primary wifi is in the lounge but doesn't stretch very far, so I have 2 more access points, one in the kitchen, another in the loft, all wired. Glad we took the opportunity to do so, and during the loft conversion and kitchen extension were the perfect times, cables under a solid concrete floor are tricky!
Aye, I think we’ll be doing ours during some renovation.
Router is in the front of the house (which is probably why it doesn’t teach all that far) but I reckon one in the kitchen and one on the playroom would do (house is vaguely triangular and that covers the corners).
Ideally would like cables to the living room and playroom but that might be a bridge too far.
I did my house. I put the router ontop of a wardrobe upstairs, then ran 4 ethernet cables up into the loft. It's a challet style house so was easy to drop 2 cables into other rooms. The 3rd cable down a disused chimney for a tv, the 4th cable provides a 2nd router in the kitchen to provide enough WIFI for the garden.
