backbox

I'm thinking of drilling through my external wall in downstairs living room, where my router is, to run a couple of cat6 cables up into the loft. On my internal wall, I'll fit a 2x RJ45 face plate but I'm unsure on the size of backbox I need. Thankfully, next to where I want to drill already...

I recently had some problems with the sockets in my conservatory...they were tripping the rcbo. On investigation I found two of the backboxes stuffed full of dead Ants. The backboxes have been cleaned out, and the wiring tidied up, but I want to prevent a recurrence. The ants appear to be...