networking

Just keep in mind thing forward. Like at a minimum get cat6. The price difference between it and cat5 is not that much and it essentially means you can wire your house for 10 gigabit, even if you’re not putting the hardware behind for that now. Unless you have a run longer than 180 feet, which maybe if you do weird runs like I did or your house is gigantic

Then think of what you want down the line, even if you don’t have hardware now. I did my camera poe drops even though I didn’t have all my cameras, as an example. Exterior cameras, interior, doorbell, etc. smart home stuff in general if you use it too. I ended up doing so many drops. Planning ahead meant I could fish bundles of cables when possible. Like in my living room I have a few Ethernet devices so I fished 5 cables at once

Oh also get a cheap label maker, will make your life so much easier. Label everything. Label both ends. Label the jack, label the cable, label the front, label the back. You can get cartridges for label makers that are heat shrink instead of labels and will print directly on the heat shrink. This is by far the most helpful part

And just use t568b and be consistent. For some reason I did 568a on a few jacks early on and it was a pain figuring that out. A cheap cable/jack tester is like $4-9 on aliexpress and will make life easier