My Home Networking - Any ideas how to improve? (LOL @ MsPaint Drawing)

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Schizophonic

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As you can see to utilise my internet I have to put my router downstaires linked to my master socket as the router is currently in my study.

At the moment i have been supplied an 02 router which will be replaced with a N Router. Howe ver my main concern is my study. I want to be able to fast fast access to my NAS drive. I also do build PCs for friends and family so using a LAN connection would be beneficial.

Can you see any flaws with this diagram? I dont want to spend a huge fortune on more equipment but until i get something similar I wont be happy with the set up.
 
Any way to run Cat 5e from downstairs to the study? Would give much better throughput and streaming through a wireless connection over any distance is always dodgy
 
not without doing any structural work to the house. I will want to do some Cat5 across everyroom but thats a project in the future.

If I do Cat5, it will have cables across the hall way and around my doors. Something I dont want around my house.
 
ohhh, well if you get a good connection between the router and the bridge then it will be fine but if you get a poor signal, streaming will be pitiful
 
Homeplugs?

Always tough to say exactly what performance you will get from them, but my HDX101s were great at uni when I couldnt cable everywhere and the wireless was shocking.
 
personally, I'd just get cat5e cabled in

if it's your house, do a proper job, if you're renting, just run it up the stairs
 
mine has been clamped to the outside of the house now for years without issues :)

goes out in a straight hole under the window ledge, then to the outside wall, then back in again where my PC is and plugged into a 5 port gigabit hub.

Master socket and the router are both on top of said window ledge. Just needs a bit of mortar coloured sillicon sealant from B&Q to hide the hold and jobs a good un. Used black cat5 cable to make it as discrete as possible. Ran it alongside the existing sky cabling for as little clutter as possible.

As for where it comes in at the top, it comes in at ground level behind my desk so well out of sight :)
 
CAT5 would be the ideal but not always viable, I use homeplugs and haven't had any issues, they never miss a beat. You might find you only get around 70-80 mbs from a pair of 200mbs homeplugs because of going from ground floor to 2nd but gotta be worth a try, you can pick up a pair for about 45 quid.
Of course if speed is paramount I think belkin now do 1gbs homeplug, but I have not read anything about how good or not they might be
 
My Cat5e cabling is mostly under the floor and behind plasterboard. The only places this required major work done was near the sockets, but if you were able to do something similar regarding the floors then you could probably get away with having surface-mounted sockets and just have cable from there down to the floor.
 
I just cat5e my house without any major hassles just recently. You can buy flat cat5e cables that you can just put underneath carpets etc. I now have my study, lounge and my garage all cabled up and there was nothing more major than lifting a couple of carpet edges and drilling on hole in a floorboard to pass the external cable for the garage through a venting duct already in the floor.

It's very simple and worthwhile exercise - now i have gigabit transfer between pc/server/laptop and WD TV in the lounge.
 
I do agreed that CAT5e cables are better but with where the master sockets are located and ripping up my floor boards are not an option right now. I've just moved into this house 2 months ago and I'm not ready for a project now.

Just to give you an indication, from the picture below you can see the 2 power sockets on the left. Next to that is the master socket

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On the picture with the door to the left is the Garage, I can hide my Wireless router.

If i want to take the cabling outside and into the back of the building and up where study is it would require a massive job.

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The Cat5E cable will have to run from the right of the picture above and into the french windows to the left and up the back.
 
no it wont

beauty of cat 5 cabling is you can tag it outside. Much easier just to run it around the outside of the house.

I've ran cables over like 50 to 75m before, around the side of a house is nothing :)
 
In halls I tied a trainer to a 50m length of blue cat5e, and threw it over the building, then fet it into my friend's room

for almost a year there was this cable going over the roof :D
 
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