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Exactly. I'm going to be running Ethernet through my house soon, and even if we stay full Wi-Fi, we'll benefit by having physical cables connecting the APs. I already have a separate AP, just need to run the cables to get a second in our basement where the signal is weak.
Do yourself a favor and drop fiber at the same time. That's my plan for whenever I get around to crawling in the attic.
My city is rolling out fiber in a year or two, so I'll have to ask them how that works, because I'd like to plan out where they drop it.
They don't drop it in your home most likely. In our home it's a box on the side of the house with the modem and they ran cat5 to our media panel in the garage.
Ours will support >1gbit (up to 10gbit allegedly), so they probably won't run cat5, but hopefully they don't get lazy and just run cat6 or cat6a and actually run a fiber link to the house.
All the ONT boxes I've seen in houses have fiber directly to the box.