I'm in the process of building a new home in Wellington (J'vlle) and am trying to figure out the best wiring and network device setup for our needs (as well as a some future proofing). I was wondering if anyone here would be able to give some advice. I've listed some specific questions below.
Here is the floor plan:

It's a small house (105msq excluding garage), with one room upstairs that we'd need wireless connectivity to. There are two bedrooms and an open-plan living area downstairs. We'll need wireless connectivity in the shaded downstairs rooms and one of the bedrooms will be a home office, so there will be some need for wire-connected devices there too. There is also a cupboard under the stairs that will have a hot-water cylinder in it but that could possibly serve as a good central point for a hub. In terms of network use, it'll be fairly normal stuff - streaming video, music, etc. throughout the house. The location we are building in doesn't have cable broadband coverage at the moment, so we'll have to go with a DSL provider at least in the short term.
There will be noise-cancelling batts in the walls of the bedrooms and between the floors, which will probably interfere with wireless signal between rooms (or am I wrong here?).
With that in mind, my thinking at the moment is that we'd get cable (cat5?) put in from a hub (blue star) through to each of the red stars, with a couple of ports at each of the red stars. We'd then plug in wireless access points in the rooms we need wireless access (initially the bedroom 1 and living). We'll get some ducting put in at the same time so that putting new/upgraded cable in at a later date will be easier.
I'm completely new to this, so my questions are:
- Does this sound like crazy talk? If so, what would you suggest instead?
If not...
- Should we go with cat5 for cable?
- Can you suggest a hub/router for the cupboard?
- Can you suggest good wireless access points?
- Can you suggest good installers I could contact that service Johnsonville?
- Anything else I should be thinking about?
Thanks for any help you can give!
Ben.