Sort of the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, or Betamax vs VHS right?On the other side of the coin, if the electrician told him he preferred fiber optic cable instead of ethernet, the homeowner should have pushed back asking for the "standard"
I already had a few people contact me and tell me that network cable is the way to go, and I also had a few people contact me and tell me that I'll get a lot of noise on the network cable if the unused wires aren't terminated, so I guess it's the risk I'm taking. I just feel like in a total retrofit where I can't punch holes in a historic structure, I want the cabling done once and hopefully it's good until I die or retire (death is probably closer, especially when I'm the one up on ladders playing with electric) and if I made the mistake, people can blame me. Last big project I was in on, we all pushed for Cat5 cable for everything, which was fine for 2000, but now they are complaining about slow speeds over the old cable. We weren't worried back then, we were hoping to future proof the number of phone lines we would need for all of our dial-up needs... Wireless? Impossible. Cell phone? Yes, it's a small brick with 50 minutes a month which no one would ever go over...
In 20 years, if this place is still running, the tech then can replace all the Cat6 with Cat2K hyperloop wireless virtually but I won't necessarily care.