Network Setup

G-DC5 · 8 Feb 2010 at 13:46

Hey folks,

My mate is looking to network his house, but between us we only know so much...

In total he plans to have 10 access points in the house.

We plan on using a router and an unmanaged switch (HP Procurve of some sort) is this right?

Also will the router be up to the job to provide DCHP for this number of access points?

Cheers

G

DJMK4 · 8 Feb 2010 at 14:06

Sounds fine to me.

10 Devices on the network, aslong as there are enough ports on the switch, which im assuming you will have something like a 16 or 24 port switch. Put all the devices in ports 2-11, then have an uplink cable in port 1 going to your router (unless there is a specially marked port on your switch, some do, some dont).

DHCP is fine aslong as its enabled on your router and you set-up the relevant pool range on your router to cover all devices on your network, open enough to cover your devices, then maybe one or two spare just incase they are needed.

Sp00n · 8 Feb 2010 at 14:09

10 WAP's sounds a bit excessive, does he have a huge house/lead walls?

DJMK4 · 8 Feb 2010 at 14:12

Sp00n said:
10 WAP's sounds a bit excessive, does he have a huge house/lead walls?

I think he means standard network points, I dont see how a house would need 10 access points.

Unless its a pretty huge house.

G-DC5 · 8 Feb 2010 at 14:39

Yeah sorry guys I mean standard network points, not access points.

The switch in mind is one with 24 ports. I'm I right in saying that a port used for uplink (which is not an uplink port) requires a crossover cable? Where as a specified uplink port does the crossover for you and use a standard cable?

Bones · 8 Feb 2010 at 15:26

standard cable should be fine from my experience.

Col_M · 8 Feb 2010 at 16:52

G-DC5 said:
Yeah sorry guys I mean standard network points, not access points.

The switch in mind is one with 24 ports. I'm I right in saying that a port used for uplink (which is not an uplink port) requires a crossover cable? Where as a specified uplink port does the crossover for you and use a standard cable?

Most good switches will autodetect in my experience so you can use either a patch or crossover cable and they'll just work it out itself, my Procurve does for sure.