ᐅ Is it necessary to have LAN cables installed in the garage?

opalau schrieb:

I understand the question very well. When building for the first time, you certainly don’t have all the options and use cases in mind. Asking for experiences and recommendations here is exactly the purpose of a forum.

Absolutely right. That’s why I ask: how do you use it? What are the pros and cons?
But with the question as stated, you only get answers like “yes, go ahead” or “no, don’t do it,” and you always have to follow up.

I wasn’t criticizing researching, but rather the way the question was asked. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to what “you” need.

As I said,
we will plug the following devices into the LAN sockets.

Living room: Access point, TV, receiver, Android TV

Children’s room (Room 1): Access point, TV, receiver, Android TV, and PC

Studio:
To the left of the window: Access point, TV, receiver, Android TV

To the right of the window: PC/laptop, printer

I know we need more than two cables at many points, but then we would put a switch there,
because having more sockets would be too expensive.

Oh man. You already know there’s a need but don’t prepare in advance. The switch reduces performance since it’s connected via only one cable. That probably won’t be an issue for you. But it also costs money and requires power. I’m out of here. I hope the house construction goes well.

You can never have enough LAN sockets.
This is what our living room looks like, with at least one additional double socket on every wall.

Times two in case my wife wants to rearrange the furniture :p

Yes, but you don’t pay 250€ gross per Cat Duplex.

And unfortunately, we can’t afford a LAN parade (no offense intended) in house construction.

I would also like to have more network cables, but they are unfortunately extremely expensive here.

FrankChief schrieb:

I would also like to have more LAN cables, but unfortunately, they are extremely expensive here.

That’s why you plan something like this in advance and include it in the building specification while you can still go to another provider. Now it’s just a “take it or leave it” phase.

FrankChief schrieb:

Living room: Access point, TV, receiver, Android TV

Maybe I’m missing something (software developer here, and this is clearly an admin issue...), but how does your TV signal actually come in? Directly through the TV, the receiver, or the Android thing? Probably not all three at the same time.

opalau schrieb:

I understand the question very well. When building for the first time, you certainly won’t have all options and use cases in mind. Asking for experience and recommendations here is exactly what a forum is for.

Sure, but you can’t expect someone else to make a personal decision for you. The range of opinions has already been given here, now the original poster has to decide whether to adjust the number of sockets to their needs or adjust their needs to the number of sockets they can afford. For my part, I have one HDMI cable by my TV (about €5 as Amazon Basics) which I plug into my laptop that streams the movie over Wi-Fi. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it works perfectly. (As an upgrade, I plan to eventually replace the laptop with a mini PC.) For linear TV, there is a second cable connecting the TV to the cable outlet, although I haven’t used that at least since the last channel reshuffle...