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Hello. My first post and its a lengthy one I'm afraid, but to you guys probably very simple.
Moved into our new house almost two years ago and as I go through each room I've been running cat6 UTP. I've never done anything like this before but enjoying the learning curve.
So far all three kids have newly decorated rooms with the eldest two having four modules each (two behind the tv's and two under their desks. Youngest child has two modules behind his tv. I've run four modules to my lounge and plan to run at least four to my guest room/cinema room and two to my bedroom with possibly another to the kitchen.
Plan to keep everything in a data cabinet in the loft and attached to the chimney stack. I have two runs of cat6 running from my study to the loft and was thinking of running one direct from the router in the study to a 24 port unmanaged switch. I will need to install two, possibly three WAP's (currently looking at ubiquity UAP-AC-LR unifi if this means that I can get away with just two or the cheaper UAP three pack (300mbps)) and later add four cameras to the outside of the house so would need atleast a further 7 or 8 poe switch ports, so after reading Blintz's thread, will look at getting a 16 port switch again unmanaged. As its all being kept in the loft I thought I'd add a twin fan to keep everything cooler in the summer months and I'd also need to add a 6 plug surge protected psu.
For the above would it be better to have everything connected from the ports to a patch panel or is it not necessary on a home network set-up?
The second cable length running from my router in the study I am looking to run about 45 metres to my guest room/cinema room. this would go to a four or five port unmanaged switch and in turn can feed to the TV, Blu-Ray etc. In this room I also plan to add a NAS drive (currently looking at QNAP TS452A) and was thinking of connecting this up via one of the HDMI to my TV and using the four RJ35 points to feed four cables back to the 24 port switch (this in turn would hopefully mean that the kids can each access the NAS simultaneously without any bottle-necking or lag). I plan to store media prior to viewing anyway but with a cable going to this room direct from my router I'm hoping it will be able to stream on the odd occasion. Or would it be better to run both cables from the router direct to the 24 port switch first to prevent bottle-necking.
Whilst on the subject of routers, I currently use the one EE provided (Brightbox 2) which I understand is basically a BT hub 5 now. Would it be in my interest to look at getting a better rouetr whilst doing all of this and keeping the router on a rackmount in the cabinet, ie would there be any benefit to this?
Really sorry if this is a lot to ask advice on for a first post. However, I have a wife lurking over my shoulder atm, and if I can get it right, then she won't mind about the additional cost. If I get it wrong however, then I can see that my life will not be worth living.
If I haven't explained this properly then please let me know and I can try to draw a layout of what I have so far and what I intend having once finished.
Moved into our new house almost two years ago and as I go through each room I've been running cat6 UTP. I've never done anything like this before but enjoying the learning curve.
So far all three kids have newly decorated rooms with the eldest two having four modules each (two behind the tv's and two under their desks. Youngest child has two modules behind his tv. I've run four modules to my lounge and plan to run at least four to my guest room/cinema room and two to my bedroom with possibly another to the kitchen.
Plan to keep everything in a data cabinet in the loft and attached to the chimney stack. I have two runs of cat6 running from my study to the loft and was thinking of running one direct from the router in the study to a 24 port unmanaged switch. I will need to install two, possibly three WAP's (currently looking at ubiquity UAP-AC-LR unifi if this means that I can get away with just two or the cheaper UAP three pack (300mbps)) and later add four cameras to the outside of the house so would need atleast a further 7 or 8 poe switch ports, so after reading Blintz's thread, will look at getting a 16 port switch again unmanaged. As its all being kept in the loft I thought I'd add a twin fan to keep everything cooler in the summer months and I'd also need to add a 6 plug surge protected psu.
For the above would it be better to have everything connected from the ports to a patch panel or is it not necessary on a home network set-up?
The second cable length running from my router in the study I am looking to run about 45 metres to my guest room/cinema room. this would go to a four or five port unmanaged switch and in turn can feed to the TV, Blu-Ray etc. In this room I also plan to add a NAS drive (currently looking at QNAP TS452A) and was thinking of connecting this up via one of the HDMI to my TV and using the four RJ35 points to feed four cables back to the 24 port switch (this in turn would hopefully mean that the kids can each access the NAS simultaneously without any bottle-necking or lag). I plan to store media prior to viewing anyway but with a cable going to this room direct from my router I'm hoping it will be able to stream on the odd occasion. Or would it be better to run both cables from the router direct to the 24 port switch first to prevent bottle-necking.
Whilst on the subject of routers, I currently use the one EE provided (Brightbox 2) which I understand is basically a BT hub 5 now. Would it be in my interest to look at getting a better rouetr whilst doing all of this and keeping the router on a rackmount in the cabinet, ie would there be any benefit to this?
Really sorry if this is a lot to ask advice on for a first post. However, I have a wife lurking over my shoulder atm, and if I can get it right, then she won't mind about the additional cost. If I get it wrong however, then I can see that my life will not be worth living.
If I haven't explained this properly then please let me know and I can try to draw a layout of what I have so far and what I intend having once finished.
