Thanks dt, my answers below. Cheers

dt:

 

A network cabinet with a terminated patch panel would give a very clean finished product and give your avg geek a hardon for a home setup but arent always necessary depending on your requirements and of course can bring up the cost quite a bit 

 

Dynamix do a nice solid wall cabinet but are pretty expensive for a residential build upwards of 1k

 

Unfortunately, that's much more than I'd be willing to spend.

 

couple of questions 

 

Any idea how many wired devices you'll be using? i.e computers, smart TV's, Access points etc

 

Wired: We will have (initially) one Smart TV, one music streaming device, one NAS and at least one WAP. In the future, there could be another music streaming device and a gaming console.

 

Wireless: One laptop and two smart phones.

 

Do you already have a switch or will you be buying something? do you have anything else like a fancy router or firewall already? are they rackable etc?

 

I don't currently have any of that, so I gather I will need to buy a switch?

 

I would definitely recommend having some conduit run as well even if thats just for the fibre to be able to terminate into your cabinet / rack  but would be awesome to conduit into each room as well if money permits (could even do that part yourself to save)

 

Will definitely consider this. Would you run the CAT6 through separate conduits leading to the sockets in each room?