My house is a massive wifi sponge. Even mesh’s etc struggle.
Finally bit the bullet and got a guy coming to run Cat 6 externally into my office so i can actually work from home productivley
I guess now is a bad time to mention Cat7 
As funny as this is, Cat7 is just such overkill for a small home system. Even 6a is a bit much! 6 should give you 10G across the whole house easily. And most people don’t even have a 10G NIC!
I’m quite happily pootling along with 5e at home. Put it in 10 or so years ago.
I noted when they wired the Squadron it was also 5e. I was hoping for 6, as our sim PCs all have gigabit NICs.
5e should be good enough for gigabit? At least up to 50 or 100m? And it’s unsurprising they went that route. Our contractors seem to love saving a buck, so anywhere they can cut costs they will.
Yeah, but future proofing would have been nice. The actual cables aren’t that much more, bulk of the cost was labour I’m sure.
Oh 100%. But if they can save £10 on a £2500 job they’ll do it 
Starlink.
Id rather pour bleach into my eyes than support anything to do with elon.
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Im paying £249
For ethernet port put into wall.
Cable being run externally into the eaves of the roof. Into a switch with 6 extra slots should i ever wish to expand the wired network
Then running the cable to a port just right by my desk
I thought that was a decent deal for something i could do myself but im too lazy too
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Sounds pretty reasonable. You’ve clearly already committed, but have you tried power line adaptors? They often work a treat.
Yeah tried that too just getting intermittent results.
Kudos to the builders of this house 
They seem to be incredibly hit-and-miss depending on the wiring layout of the house. I use them at home, but going from one side of a room to the other, and it’s flawless. Just shows I am incredibly lazy, as it would be quite easy to run a cable and hide it. But means moving lots of things, so just went down the power line route
If you can, get 2 cables run for redundancy. You only need to terminate the one or you could run them to a double socket at each end, shouldn’t cost too much more.
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Think I’ve run 6 in my place. I think at least one of them is actually marked 6e though I purchased as 6.
Cable from router in living room to power line adaptor in hall, cable from hall to office PC, then the socket to the power line’s WiFi adaptor in the bedroom.
At this scale, not much of a cost issue and I don’t even know if they had cat 5 available where I got the cables. If my internet is ever faster then there’s no need to replace cables.