Hello,
My home wifi was hacked, my PC bricked and my tablet and phone compromised (targeted phishing pop ups about how my account passwords were being changed, they weren't). So incredibly motivated to keep this from happening again that I am learning networking.
Current setup.
New Xfinity modem (XB7-CM) in bridge mode -> Firewalla gold in routing mode (firewall minipc) -> My new PC. I need to add wifi or an AP to this. I was under the impression that a MAC whitelist was the gold standard for keeping only permitted devices onto a network. Then I read a few minutes ago that it is trivially easy to spoof a MAC address. So what would be the gold standard for wireless security if an AP with MAC address whitelisting isn't it? Or is that false and an AP with white listed MAC's for entry is a gold standard?
My goal for my home network is simple. I want it to take a "moderately sized police agency" to crack my shit again, as in a hardline tap or other tools law enforcement has that the guy with the lunix laptop doesn't have access to.
-Angry Network Newb
Low Voltage contractor. Watch them like a hawk, if you pay for cat6 or 7 quality cabling ensure its not catshit that gets installed. Contractors tend to be the "he don't know any better" sorts. Check the packaging before its installed is the best way to make sure you don't give them a nice tip in charged vs installed material costs. All contractors, but particularly low voltage and electrical contractors like to use what they like to use as long as it doesn't fail an electrical inspection it's free game.
If your installing one ethernet port and it's mainly one vertical step I would guess your looking at 6 hours of work + materials.
Semi educated guess for similar work in my part of Colorado....$550-750, one port.