Best setup for new home

Most local TV /satellite installation companies seem to have diversified into wiring up homes for broadband. 

ISPs are only interested in delivering the internet TO your home. How you distribute it is up to you to sort out.

For instance, you would expect Thames Water to fit a water meter & a service pipe, but can’t expect them to advise you on fitting out a new bathroom.

Often the electricians performing the renovation have experience of installing network sockets and network cables for Wi-Fi Access Points.    But like replacing a kitchen, it is up to you to broadly outline what is needed as they can't second guess where your office might be or if you want network sockets near your TV and coverage to outbuildings.

My only suggestion to add to above is to use PoE Wifi access points for the Wifi element.  These are easily powered over the ethernet cable and can be mounted on a ceiling (or wall at a pinch).  They give great Wifi coverage and are fairly discrete, similar to a smoke alarm.  Depending on the property, one or two per floor should suffice.  Unifi, Omada or similar SOHO units if you need to check out some examples.  With all ethernet cables ending in a "comms cabinet", a PoE switch will be required rather than individual injectors.

I totally go along with Adduxi suggestions. I would go for Cat6a cable which in a normal home will give you the potential of going up to 10G for the connection.   I would look at more professional/business equipment which will to some extent future proof your installation. I’m very much a believer in separate network components not all-in-one retail so called routers. With separate components you can update individual ones or replace if there is a failure without the expense of replacing your all-in-one ‘router’.

My installation, run in modem mode of course, has the router under the stairs with a network switch which provides PoE connections. Two other PoE switches, one in the loft and one in the living room. Four Wireless Access Points and six cameras around the home, all PoE powered. 

I’m away for home for about 4 months of each year and can access all my equipment remotely. I also have 2 ISP connections, VM 1000/100G and Open Infra fibre 1000/1000G with my router splitting traffic 50/50.

Thanks all.

A lot to think about if you're not that technical :D 

My current setup is router in modem mode and I have a Eero plugged into the router

And I have another in my bedroom acting as a wifi extender & plugged into my pc with ethernet

And another upstairs as a wifi extender.

We're renting this place so have never needed to think about anything other than what we have now.  But for our new place I want to future proof and make it as good as possible.

Set up a comms cupboard with at least four double 13A sockets which is where your VM internal termination box (ITB) will be installed with the hub and router and network switch. Make sure this cupboard is ventilated if necessary. Run Cat 6 Ethernet cables using optional patch panel to every room which needs it in a star topology from the network switch or patch panel and terminated in RJ45 sockets. Consider if a ceiling location would be suitable in some rooms for a WAP. For extra ports: in some key rooms consider running additional Cat 6 cables, for other rooms connect a small network switch to the RJ45 socket. Make sure you label each cable at both ends.

VM will run a cable (coaxial or fibre microduct) from external termination box to ITB, so ensure there is a path for this. Sometimes this is easy but in other cases you may need to install a conduit with a pull cord.

Yup run some Cat6a cable and get some wireless AP getting a switch thats rack mounted and the power to run number of AP that you need to look into most AP are 30W