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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have Cat6 everywhere. It is very far from being OBE. It also means I can plug in a WiFi extender into the wired Ethernet anywhere if needed.

We have 1/3 acre lots and there are something like 6 other houses' WiFi contending with our WiFi (which we use only for iPhones/iPads). There are no unused Wifi channels anywhere in our neighborhood - and again these are not tiny lots or such like. It would be worse in a denser area. [/quote]

Same problem here. I switched to 5GHz to get away from everyone else a few years ago. However, it's getting crowded again.

For anything that doesn't move, I installed cat5e about a decade ago. Two drops per room and terminated into a punchdown in my crawlspace. There's a biggish (16 ports?) unmanaged switch connecting it all. Fiber is overkill inside the house for the relatively short distances involved. If you need more than two connections, the room gets a switch.

All my IoT devices are on a 2GHz WiFi to keep them from slowing down the 5GHz WiFi for the phones, tablets, and laptops. I did that a few years ago. That's was tedious. Does it matter? Not sure. There are a crazy number of IoT devices in my house. It was a good to audit them.[/quote]

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