Planning communications for a new house. Opinions welcome

In my area, home builders have been using electricity for kitchen and not installing gas.

Vitro kitchens are the tendency. Everybody wants them, but not having gas conducts at home is not a better option than having them even if you do not use them.

They have saved a lot of money selling you what a modern home you have for having inductive or vitro kitchens and not having that old conducts at home. And they have saved a lot of money not installing them in the homes they sell.

Now electricity prices have reached the sky and all people who has no gas have no alternative (well gas has gone high too).

Home builders make what people asks for and what makes money for them.

I will lay as many cabling as I can afford and makes sense, and then put wifi AP only where it is really needed.

Wifi mesh is not a better alternative than cabling and switches, just a convenient option when you have the need of connection in disperse places or many mobile devices and you cannot get there using cable.

By the way, at leas with openWRT and the routers I have, wifi Fast Transtitions do not work with every devices, there are many android (<=10) devices that simple do not connect if you hav 802.11r (fast transitions) and 802.11w (management packets protection) activated at the same time and yet others (may be Android 11) that do not connect if you disable 802.11w so you have no way to have them all happy.

Problems with WIFI roaming Fast transitions/Frame protection in some devices - Installing and Using OpenWrt / Network and Wireless Configuration - OpenWrt Forum

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