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Originally Posted by Izzle
Thought I'd piggy back on this. Looking to get some opinions here. We're also currently building a house with possession in later 2026.
I was thinking about Internet. We don't really watch much cable TV nor are we much into gaming. All we do is steam TV... Netflix, Disney+, etc. do we really need CAT6? I was hoping to just get a router from Shaw, hook it up to a wireless router and then get a WiFi extender to reach the bedroom. Bedroom is the furthest location from the basement where the router will be set up.
Any advice is appreciated.
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As DoubleF mentioned above, going with Cat6a is only a few hundred bucks at most for the whole house and will future proof things. In the same vein, with a brand new build I would spend a few more extra hundred on a PoE switch, then 1 or 2 PoE access points that you can put wherever in the house makes sense. That will give you far more consistent wifi speeds than an extender will