Home network build advice

[Waesfjord]

I'm trying to educate myself to put together a home network, do it once well, then hopefully minimal interaction.
The house is prewired was Cat5e to location in a room under stairs so that will be location of router, intend to use ISP (Fritzbox 5780), router mode, with WIfI disabled. Looking at Ubiquiti to provide WiFi AP's as seem best bang for buck.

Any feedback on proposals below would be appreciated.

Cabling

• For terminations at central hub, each cable to be connected to a keystone, them attached to the faceplate, wall mounting bracket matching the hole size in wall.
  • https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N49J002/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  • https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082YHQ3HB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
• For keystones, I got the following. Seems they require cable provided at 90degree to keystone. Not sure if this will cause difficulty in punching or mounting keystones on faceplate as never done this before.
  • https://www.cables.ie/cat-6-modular-keystone-jack-rj45-8p8c.html
• Around house, the cabling at points are not terminated. If Ubiquiti Ap's used, then RJ45 plugs, POE switch to power them.
  
  • Understand that the cabling to these points may require specific RJ45 plugs as solid core rather than stranded cable. Haven't looked into that yet in detail.

Hardware

• ISP router used, WiFi disabled.

• 8port POE Switch to power the AP's, peripheral connections to network (house alarm, hue hub etc). Example one below

• https://eu.store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/unifi-switch-lite-8-poe

• Living room has tv, Sky, Xbox, Firestick etc, also main users on tablets, phones here on adjoining open plan room. Was think an in-wall Ubiquiti HD unit here, as has inbuilt switch, also WiFi. Its location will be behind a 42" tv so unsure how effective this will be for other users in room (laptop / phone etc).
  • https://eu.store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless/products/unifi-in-wall-hd
• A temporary home office downstairs opposite side of house has another point pre-wired for tv with cat 5e in one corner. WiFi users in office only, maybe a Unifi AP here?
  • https://eu.store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless/products/unifi-ap6-professional-beta
• A 2nd temp home office in bedroom upstairs. Also various Hue lights and plugs etc around home to connect to WiFi.
  • Would you think that a 3rd AP needed to get decent WiFi upstairs (2500sq ft house) or trial and error?

Thanks for reading, and would be great to get input from any knowledgeable folks on the forum able to advise if I'm on the right track or not.

 

[whitecrook]

I did similar

dropped cat 5e into each room and terminated in central location in attic


Punched down into patch panel and mounted in a comms cabinet

Run modem from downstairs into wall panel patched through to my firewall also in the comms rack

got a 24port gig switch. Handles most of everything

also got a 8port poe (250w??) unifi

this powers 3x ap-pro and 4x poe cameras g3 flex and a cloud key

put ap at top end of landing one at bottome end. And one downstairs between. So kind of triangle layout from the side

set power to low

get great wifi everywhere

everything is cat5e

worked well

ive seem these keystone things. They look neat but a basic patch panel is simpler and easier

you need to use solid for all your cables. Stranded is only for patch cables but no ody makes them anymore


Just get solidcore
Utp cat5e. This is enough. More important is to drop AT LEAST 2x everywhere ideally 4x even if you only hook up a double face plate. Trust me once you have dropped your cables you dont wanna have to do it again. If you get 2x boxes you can do 2x cables at once ayyeee.

 

[Waesfjord]

thanks for feedback. The cables were laid during house build, so no opportunity to pull duplicate lengths, just have to terminate and add hardware to connect all together is what is left to do.