Wiring a computer network?

[Zep]

Have a nice friend who knows this stuff do the terminations of the cabling. I imagine there's also contacts via your local computer vendor or shoppe. With the right tools and skills, it should take not long at all.

If you get the electrician to do it, just make sure he has done -->NETWORKING!<-- cables before. Some sparkies do just as "rustic" work on network cables as they do with big thick electricity cables where it matters less - bad news. Computer cables are more precise and delicate than mains power, not necessarily more complicated...care and precision are necessary.

ETA: You may joke but...wire the kitchen too! Have you seen those new fridges with internet access? You may win Jeopardy one day, and...well, there you are, already prepared!

 

[Shadowhawk]

Personally, I'd go for fiber optic cabling in the walls. More expensive, but much more future-proof. It's also immune to interference problems (which you'll get if copper is too close to mains lines, and you'll see relatively often if you use wireless), but it is more fragile (and thus more difficult to run).

The best option is to run conduit, so you can easily replace or add to your wire runs, but I don't think it's much of an option after the drywall goes up.

Me, I just have a 100' cat5 cable running through holes I drilled in the floor up to the router and into my room.

 

[Pyrrho]

Wireless has an advantage in that mice can't chew yer Cat 5.

Yeah...I had to replace a cable for that reason...

 

[jj]

I vote for 1G wired.

It's harder to snoop, etc. Of course, most wireless allows long-key encryption.