New build house networking advice needed

[Mattr]

Hi all,

Moving into a new build with OFNL fttp provided by seethelight and looking for some tips/advice on setting up our network as I’m a networking noob.

House is over 3 floors. Utility room on ground floor houses the ONT and a patch panel which provides (I think) 2 sockets in living room and 1 to master bedroom on top floor, no sockets to first floor (3 bedrooms).

Use case will be
- Living room: TV, SkyQ and possibly Apple TV
- First floor: gaming PC x2 in bed 3. Office with laptop in bed 4
- Second floor: No use for this patch panel socket except perhaps mesh wifi

My plan is to use my rt-ac88u instead of the ISP provided router and place this either in living room via patch panel or in utility room.

If I place the router in the utility room then I can always get an AIMesh router and put it on the top floor to provide coverage. Will only leave 2 sockets for living room though.
Ideal situation would be to expand patch panel to bed 3 (x4) and bed 4 (x2) but from what I can tell this is quite expensive. Does anyone have any experience of this?

Is there a better or easier solution I might be missing? If it were you, would you fork out for the extra sockets to first floor early on?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

 

[Mattr]

No I'd get a cheap 5 port gigabit switch and put it in living room or bedroom as required for extra ports.

Thanks good suggestion, only difficulty is we need ethernet to the first floor really. Or good WiFi.

 

[Mattr]

Sorry I missed that bit of your house layout, sounds weird, why don't they just run 1 socket per floor? Then you mesh wifi from each floor out like that?
Maybe worth paying extra for, but get them to cut back on others so the cost is minimal.

No probs.

Well house is already built, moving in tomorrow (I should have mentioned) and we were too late in building process to make changes to wiring sadly.

I don’t even know which professional I’d call for a job like this! Sparky?