So as I make my move and leave Florida, I did a long term rental on a house. It's very nice, but was custom built by an old couple who has shuffled off the mortal coil. It was built as their dream home, and has some really nice features. But it was built almost completely ignoring things like cable tv wiring etc. it has two outlets in the place, and they are both in places you can't put a tv bigger than about 30 inch. You can tell they just weren't TV people.
So I have permission from the owner to do whatever the heck I want as far as additional wiring, as long as it's done right. No cable stuck up out of the floor etc. So I'm going to have an electrician fish me a couple lines up and install wall boxes etc.
I've always wanted to have hard line connections for my smart TV, Xbox, etc. My wife works from home and her computer requires a hardware connection and a special "security box" (some sort of firewall I'm sure). To that end the cable model for wireless in the house is usually in her office, and that leads to fun times trying to keep good wireless in other rooms and especially other floors.
So what I'm thinking is that when they are running cable I may have them run me a couple Cat 5 lines at the same time.
I have no idea what proper hardware and design would be, but my thoughts would be to place the cable modem where the tv cable enters the house - the house splitter is actually in a finished but un heated basement. Then at a cat 5 outlet on each floor put a wireless router - plug the stuff that needs a hard line into it and have a wireless network for each floor.
Not having never done anything more than plug my one wireless router in my home does this sound reasonable? Anything to watch out for? What about the cable modem and temperature. Being unseated/cooled that room could have some extremes, though it's mostly underground. Will normal hardware deal with that? And any problems with multiple wireless networks in the same house? I assume keep on separate channels and I should be good right?