Wired up house for ethernet

[robbieduncan]

Norfolk B-roads said:

Wireless for the mobile devices, fixed sockets for anything that doesn't move.

100% this. When you understand how WiFi works you'll appreciate this even more (and go down a multi-access point route). I even use the presence or lack of an Ethernet port influence buying decisions (Roku: where is my 4k player with an Ethernet port in the UK?)

[8bit]

Another "me too" here. We're lucky in that our place has a good subfloor with access from a hatch in the cupboard under the stairs, the height down there is about 5 foot at one end of the house and about 3 at the other so I could easily crawl about down there and run the cables in and tack them to the floor joists. Only two rooms upstairs, managed to run one cable up the chimney breast to get into the master bedroom and another up another wall to reach the little room that now serves as the man cave. All the runs terminate in a little 12 port patch panel in the cupboard under the stairs, where the phone/broadband point is located, the modem and router and a 12-port 1GbE switch, Sonos bridge, HDHomeRun network TV tuner and NAS box.

Pretty much everything that has an ethernet socket is wired, the only things using the WiFi are things that have no option for wired. The only exception there are the 2x Sonos Play3 speakers in a stereo pair in the kitchen; slight misunderstanding between us and the builders who did the extension meant they wired in power points up in the corners for the Play3s but not ethernet points. My OCD has just about come to terms with this now, some five years later...