Wiring ethernet at home. Guidence please

Sams255 · 15 Apr 2018 at 14:06

Hi,

My wifi in certain parts of the house is terrible especially in the office and living room (virgin media hub upstairs)

Im looking at hard wiriing ethernet cable in those 2 rooms. Looking to run the cable outside the house. But i do have a question. Once i run the cables to the backboxes and connect the ethernet faceplates there. How do i connect it all to the router ??

Do you run the ethernet in a radial circuit or do you run one cable to one outlet ?

Some people online say connect it directly to a ethernet switch or ??? Plug it stright into the modem. What have people done here in the UK

MagicBoy · 15 Apr 2018 at 14:29

I think you need to go do some ethernet 101 research!

One cable to one outlet. The days of ring networks were done by the late 90s.
You need a router between your internet connection and the client devices. You can't just plug a switch into a modem - it won't work.

There are alternatives available to running cable outside your house - powerline adaptors for example.

spoffle · 15 Apr 2018 at 14:55

MagicBoy said:
I think you need to go do some ethernet 101 research!

One cable to one outlet. The days of ring networks were done by the late 90s.
You need a router between your internet connection and the client devices. You can't just plug a switch into a modem - it won't work.

There are alternatives available to running cable outside your house - powerline adaptors for example.

He means into the Virgin hub, which would actually work.

OP, get a patch panel and terminate the ethernet runs into that directly, it makes for a much cleaner installation.

MagicBoy · 15 Apr 2018 at 14:58

spoffle said:
He means into the Virgin hub, which would actually work.

If you say so, not used Nynex/C&W/NTL/Virgin in 10+years. Back then they were handing out modems... and that is what the OP referred to it as. Given that he/she thinks Ethernet is a still a co-axial ring I wasn't taking the chance...

spoffle · 15 Apr 2018 at 15:04

MagicBoy said:
If you say so, not used Nynex/C&W/NTL/Virgin in 10+years. Back then they were handing out modems... and that is what the OP referred to it as. Given that he/she thinks Ethernet is a still a co-axial ring I wasn't taking the chance...

Virgin hubs are modem routers.

Sams255 · 15 Apr 2018 at 15:10

what about if i plugged them into a netgear unmanaged switch ?would that be ok ?

spoffle · 15 Apr 2018 at 15:46

Sams255 said:
What about if i plugged them into a netgear unmanaged switch? Would that be ok?

That would be fine.