With this being a completely brand new apartment, one might question why no integrated network? The answer is simple, and that comes to resources. The apartment is only 625sf. There has to be the essentials that all 1 bedroom apartments will need such as a bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and living room. Under better circumstances, I would have placed a network closet in the home office. However, again – at 625sf, there simply was not enough room for an office. Also, the hall space is very minimal, and not even easy to acknowledge the hall since it might only be a meter long. I do recognize that a sufficient communication to the outside world is essential. I could have used either cellular internet which would have required using their router/modem combination, or use another ISP? that would support termination as an RJ45 connection. I chose the second. The RJ45 connection is on a shelf in the hallway to where the tenant can plug in their preferred router, and use that to connect to the internet. And since the network is all within the apartment, there is no need to rely on ethernet lines that run everywhere, and would only have options for 3 (4 minus elevator line) of those connections.
If a tenant needs to plug something into the network such as an ATA?, or a NAS?, then it would have to be plugged directly into their router. This limited opportunities. When possible, one would want to consider wifi? which is usually opposite of what I will suggest, but again, the only WAN connection is in the hallway which is towards the center of the house.