In the middle of renovating a 1200 square-foot single-level house. Having a hard time deciding how to set up the in-wall cabling for AV and networking. I am at a blank for what cables to tell my contractor to set up. I have a few general ideas and I hope you folks can fill in the blanks and offer some suggestion.
1. In my old place, I've used mesh wifi with mixed result. Frequent disconnection is frustrating. I can use mesh in this new place for phone/tablets but perhaps a network jack(or two in my office room since I use 2 computers) in every room to help with speed, connection stability. But which network cable to buy? Cat 6, 7, 8, types??
2. For my living room where I plan to hang a TV on the wall, what cable/wall jacks I need set up behind the TV? 1 power out, 1 ethernet, 1 usb with a USB hub near the floor, 3 hdmi?? Do I run cables out of the wall or setup keystones?
3. What kind of outlet at the base of the TV for future-proof purposes? I would rather setup more than necessary and not need them now than call my contractor years down the road to come to setup something I didn't get done this time.
4. The home is small and I'm struggling to figure out a place to setup my cable modem and mesh router. Should I just have it plop down at the base of the TV and have a bunch of CAT cables running into the wall from it to each room? Or have the internet cable lead to a closet somewhere and setup my modem/router in the closet instead?
Sorry for the newbie questions. First time ever doing in-wall cabling and just want it well-thought through and do it once.
1. In my old place, I've used mesh wifi with mixed result. Frequent disconnection is frustrating. I can use mesh in this new place for phone/tablets but perhaps a network jack(or two in my office room since I use 2 computers) in every room to help with speed, connection stability. But which network cable to buy? Cat 6, 7, 8, types??
2. For my living room where I plan to hang a TV on the wall, what cable/wall jacks I need set up behind the TV? 1 power out, 1 ethernet, 1 usb with a USB hub near the floor, 3 hdmi?? Do I run cables out of the wall or setup keystones?
3. What kind of outlet at the base of the TV for future-proof purposes? I would rather setup more than necessary and not need them now than call my contractor years down the road to come to setup something I didn't get done this time.
4. The home is small and I'm struggling to figure out a place to setup my cable modem and mesh router. Should I just have it plop down at the base of the TV and have a bunch of CAT cables running into the wall from it to each room? Or have the internet cable lead to a closet somewhere and setup my modem/router in the closet instead?
Sorry for the newbie questions. First time ever doing in-wall cabling and just want it well-thought through and do it once.