[adriancr]

For that price, why not just run fiber?, once you have cables you can just upgrade to 25gbps/40gbps etc on same cables. You can get second hand data center equipment for upgrades for a long time as they keep upgrading and prices drop.

Those cat8 (?) cables seem like a large investment when whole point of cat cables was that they are cheap.

[thefz]

Came here exactly to say this. Single mode bidi fiber does not care about electrical interference, is cheap, super thin so easy to pull, future proof, and can carry up to 40GBps if you have the money. 10Gbps optics are quite cheap nowadays. You can also have LC or SC keystone jacks.

Copper is crazy expensive.

[toomuchtodo]

Copper for power over Ethernet is a necessary evil.

[adriancr]

What do you use poe for inside the house?, outside I would assume cameras and those could be on a separate switch/network.

I run fiber to an outside poe switch with sfp+ that has a grounded power socket and from there poe, in case of shorted wires due to pests or lightning nothing dies in the house.

[toomuchtodo]

Wireless access points.

[thefz]

Only if you need PoE, though.