Do you need LAN cables in the garage?

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Let's do the math...

My electrician charges 130 EUR for a data socket, 250 EUR for a double socket. Net prices.
These should be usual prices, rather on the lower end of the scale.

Let's assume I need in
the living room 6 connections
children's room 2x 4 connections each
office 4 connections
bedroom 4 connections
kitchen 2 connections

Additionally a bit of PoE, so you buy a 48-port switch. Costs around 300 EUR (at least), consumes 15-20W 24/7/365.
The electrician charges 3,000 EUR net for that. 12 double sockets.

Now I take one single socket per room, in the living room I take 2 single sockets
780 EUR for the data sockets.
A 4-port switch costs 25 EUR and consumes about 2.5 watts. But it only runs when I need it. 2/3 of the day it is turned off because no one is at home or people are sleeping...
And in the HAR there is an 8, maybe 12-port switch, which uses 7-8 watts instead of 15-20.

Over time the electricity costs make the difference... and you are clearly better off with the decentralized solution than with the centralized one.

Thank you for your invoice and it reinforces my decision that I am right to install only one double socket everywhere.

Our electrician wants 220€ net for a double socket and 195€ for a single socket (of course I will only choose double sockets) Then I thought about where we need LAN everywhere

and only the 5 locations came to my mind, each behind desks or cabinets where you can easily install an invisible switch.

Which WLAN system can you recommend that can simply be placed on the cabinet/lowboard??

What do you think of Fritzbox, Asus ZenWifi, Netgear Orbi?

No matter which system, the access points/repeaters will definitely be connected via LAN

The access points/repeaters are definitely connected via LAN

The terminology is always a bit confusing because many devices allow both. But usually, one tends to refer to access points, and repeater means more the Wi-Fi integration (although, as mentioned, many devices labeled as repeaters can also be operated as access points. You just have to pay attention accordingly.) I’m only saying this so you’re not surprised if people here get upset over the word "repeater."

I can’t really recommend any products; we currently have just a cheap thing in our rented apartment that often fails. It doesn’t like its current placement on the shelf either because it’s more or less blocked from almost all sides. (Since it’s a rented apartment and it mainly serves one room, it’s not that important.) Especially if you’re planning only a few APs, I would say that free placement is all the more valuable. That’s why I would reconsider whether you could live with wall APs after all. In the end, it doesn’t look much different than a smoke detector or something like that. (If the answer is we definitely don’t want that, that’s okay, but I just wanted to leave the suggestion anyway ;) )

Purely in terms of aesthetics, it's also something different whether I now mount a Fritzbox on the wall, some cheap, square access point preferably with external antennas, or for example an access point from Ubiquiti. Personally, I don't really find the Ubiquitis ugly. We have ours centrally in the hallway on the wall under the top stair step and with that we have Wi-Fi throughout the entire house and on the terrace.

Which Wi-Fi system can you recommend that can simply be placed on the cabinet/lowboard??

What do you think of Fritzbox, Asus ZenWifi, Netgear Orbi?

What exactly is going wrong with you? You have already been given an epic detailed explanation and and you have learned NOTHING from it. Just read it again and try to understand it this time.

The others can actually save their answers because it’s pointless.