Start by hiring the local computer and networking tech in your community, tell this person your goals, and let them do their job.
I was such a guy for 20 years in a small city in southern California. My clients stayed with me for years.
lagunajim1
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The trick with cable (I used to be a sound engineer) is that they have a natural turn to them.
So you want to coil it up, but for every loop you turn the cable slightly in the direction it wants to turn itself.
This way you end up with a neat, flat, coil that is not fighting against itself.
Practice a couple of times and you'll have it down. Applies to all types of cable.
I'm a fan of one network - let your devices decide what band they want to use.
Except I encourage my workstation to use 5GHz by making it the preferred bank in the network adapter setting - because the speed is significantly faster.
For tv's and stuff, fast enough is fast enough.
Anything over about 250/100 is overkill, but it all depends on pricing.
If they charge $5 more a month for 1Gb versus 250/100 then maybe go for it.