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Same here, house was built around 1900 and they really never intended you to run anything more than power... Basically impossible to get anything else through without tearing up the flooring/wall, and the rooms are askew too.

Damaged a CAT-8 a little while ago, trying to pull it into my office.

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Why spend on cat8? You have that bandwidth on a home connection? Or a nas capable of serving it?

Given the effort required to put cabling in e.g. mine is underneath plaster, future proofing it as best you can could save aggravation in the kind of timeframe that people live in houses for.

The best future proofing is running a conduit, not just copper.

> future proofing

The best future proofing thing you can do in a living house is lay down at least x2 cable per drop.

It wasn't that much more expensive and I knew that it was going to be such a pain that I was happy to do it once and future-proof. Probably won't max it out in my lifetime, but it's nice to have options.

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