Home network wiring

[Dean037]

Hi everyone hope you are all well, I live in a 3 bed house , router is in living room, we are getting a full house rewire early next year so I am trying to prepare.

I will be getting cctv in future so I thought I would get Cat 6 cable to loft and have nvr in loft.

Then I thought If 1 cable into loft from roiter I could get a switch so can have 1 wire from router in and have 11 spare ports , 1 for router and 2 to each bedroom, so that's the plan.

Any help or opinions welcome as don't know best way to go about it. I am only wanting to bedrooms as why not get 2 to each room for pc and tvs etc. I keep reading how lofts are not ideal for electrics but don't want nvr in bedroom so that's why wanted in loft, also thought ideal place to run cables down. My loft in boarded amd seems nice and dry, others say they have always had in loft with no issues.

Any help would be great.
Thanks dean

 

[Steveocee]

Get 2 run up to the loft. 2 to each room and of course mains in the loft.
Sounds like you have a decent enough plan.
Are you getting cables terminated to patch panel? If not just go for decent cat5e as it’s easier to terminate and no performance difference.

 

[Dean037]

Get 2 run up to the loft. 2 to each room and of course mains in the loft.
Sounds like you have a decent enough plan.
Are you getting cables terminated to patch panel? If not just go for decent cat5e as it’s easier to terminate and no performance difference.

Getting mains in loft for NVR , would you get 1 cable ran from router in living room up to loft, then into a switch / bub also called ethernet splitter (think that's same as patch pannel) then 2 cables from the pannel down into each room to a plug on wall.

Is it a gigabit ethernet switch

You think that's the best way ? Or would you place the splitter in a bedroom ?

I thought loft seemed easiest and logical
Any brands recommended tp link or net gear?

The speeds will be good from cables hopefully and I think I only need the 1 from router to loft then rest coming from switch that that 1 wire plugs into.

How does that sound
Thanks dean

 

[BuckOff]

I've got my Hikvision NVR in the loft, showing 820 days power on, on the HDD and it's sat at 18c, haven't had any trouble, also got a Hewlett Packard enterprise 24 port switch, which I aquired from work as they was upgrading, both sat in a cabinet mounted on the gable end. I ran a 2.5mm to a small consumer unit mounted in the loft at the side of the cabinet and ran 3 or 4 cat6 up to the loft too, from the downstairs router, managed to fishtail them all up the cavity, also attatched a draw wire just incase Didn't bother with a patch panel, just made the ends off.

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

Make sure the cabling does 10gbe, so cat 5e or 6, one per room is probably fine, but since the cabling is likely the lowest cost item in the work, may as well get two to each room. Have them all go into either a patch panel then switch, or just a switch in the loft is fine, just make sure it's not placed in flammable insulation etc. Purely incase of electrical fault one day.
Depending on cost, you might want to go straight to multi gig on at least some ports on the loft switch. Multi gig net is starting to become a thing.

 

[Steveocee]

Getting mains in loft for NVR , would you get 1 cable ran from router in living room up to loft, then into a switch / bub also called ethernet splitter (think that's same as patch pannel) then 2 cables from the pannel down into each room to a plug on wall.

Is it a gigabit ethernet switch

You think that's the best way ? Or would you place the splitter in a bedroom ?

I thought loft seemed easiest and logical
Any brands recommended tp link or net gear?

The speeds will be good from cables hopefully and I think I only need the 1 from router to loft then rest coming from switch that that 1 wire plugs into.

How does that sound
Thanks dean

Definitely go for 2 between loft and front room. It's ridiculous cheap to get the extra added (or it should be) and will be the one you want/need the most so backup is handy.

As for switch brand - yeah anything up to 24 port tplink, netgear, less than £100 will do the job. It's a switch, as long as it switches, dont go for gimmicks like gaming switches or port based qos. Just a switch is fine.

Attic is ideal place to put kit in, hides it and is easy to work on if you need.

 

[Dean037]

Thanks for all great advice. Looking at switches and down to 2 tp link ones

LS108G and TL-SG108S anyone know the difference ?​

8 ports will do for now. One going in and 2 to each room and one for nvr.

Also in loft would you add wall sockets (female) and do short wire onto switch from the router as I was planning on just using wires straight into switch at the loft.

Thanks dean