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I put 35+ Cat 6 drops throughout my new house. Basically, 2 for every possible TV location. One for each wireless access point on each floor. 14 for a whole house audio system. 3 for surveillance cameras using power over Ethernet. My plan for the TV location is to use one drop for internet stuffs and one drop for a home video distribution network. I will rent just one cable box and distribute signal via a HDMI over Cat solution or HDBaseT to every TV. I am not paying the cable company $20 a month to rent each additional box. Try doing that over wireless. I would have installed more Cat drops had I known about using Cat cables for automated blinds.
To answer the question, Cat 6 is worth the extra cost especially if you are going to stay in the house for long term. Eventually, 10 gbps network will be affordable and it will be much more expensive to open up the walls to upgrade the cables.
I put 35+ Cat 6 drops throughout my new house. Basically, 2 for every possible TV location. One for each wireless access point on each floor. 14 for a whole house audio system. 3 for surveillance cameras using power over Ethernet. My plan for the TV location is to use one drop for internet stuffs and one drop for a home video distribution network. I will rent just one cable box and distribute signal via a HDMI over Cat solution or HDBaseT to every TV. I am not paying the cable company $20 a month to rent each additional box. Try doing that over wireless. I would have installed more Cat drops had I known about using Cat cables for automated blinds.
To answer the question, Cat 6 is worth the extra cost especially if you are going to stay in the house for long term. Eventually, 10 gbps network will be affordable and it will be much more expensive to open up the walls to upgrade the cables.
We use wireless to watch TV on multiple TVs, but then we do not use cable.
But you are not transferring large files from computer to computer. if the poster ever wants to have central backup or file server its not going to work well over wireless. yes what you are doing is fine for wireless.
I do nto think many people do that in their home.
CAT 5 or 6 may appear prudent on paper looking at numbers. In real world experience though it is not needed. We have it. There are 2 runs to every room and 8 runs to the library. We originally set up with it, but then moved things around to be more convenient and went just with wireless. There are two desktops still on CAT V. We have 5 kids so that means typically 15 to 20 kids in our house at any given time. All of them have Galaxies or Iphones. Also because we did not secure the wireless, several of our neighbors use it too. (Not to mention our former contractor sometimes parks in our driveway to to internet stuff because it is faster than his home DSL) We have never had any significant problem. For a while at 3 p.m. it would slow down some because all the kids came home and the neighbor kids were probably using it too. However we never needed to go back and connect into the CAT V cables Not ever. The desk top connections are not dramatically faster than the wireless. At times they are noticeably faster, but not hugely so.
Cat 6 is an orphan, there's nothing you can do with Cat 6 you can't do with cheaper Cat 5e. You need to run it anywhere you want a wireless access point (many houses need more than one), if nothing else.
I just bought cat6 cable to run POE cameras outside of my home. I don't know that I would pay to have it prewired in a house unless you were planning on adding cameras, speakers, or something that would use cat6. I'd be more concerned with making sure all attic and dead spaces are accessible to run whatever you want later or make roof/wall repairs. I've cut a few large holes in closet walls and installed doors to access the dead space between the wall and sloped roof.
Cat6 cable is dirt-cheap on Amazon.
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