About the thread itself: We have installed 1 Cat7 LAN socket in every room. Both of us are IT people, but I don’t see the need for CAT8 coming anytime soon either. If you want, you can certainly do it, but that’s a crystal ball question, so it’s pointless to discuss. In the office we have 2 duplex sockets (so 4 ports), and in the living room one duplex socket (2 ports). All other rooms only got one port. Duplex socket, but only one occupied. Network via cable is actually only important for us for playing first-person shooters, or in the office where we still want to build a NAS. Everything else mostly runs, and increasingly more reliably, over WLAN. We had coax cables pulled from the attic to the living room "just to be safe," but we’re not getting a SAT system and it was probably money wasted. I don’t think we will ever get so old that we’ll have a SAT system installed after all. We completely skipped telephone cables. We also didn’t order a Telekom connection because we are getting fiber optic installed. On the landline, only Mom calls anyway, and that can be done via VoIP.