Noob Home Network Question

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 08:18

First of all don't kill me if what I'm asking is stupid or doesn't make sense, as you're about to find out I have no idea about these things.

Ok. We've got a home network built into the house with all the cables connected to a router in one of the bedrooms. We're about to have a 2nd phone line along with BT Infinity installed however this has to be installed in our lounge. Providing the home network is still hooked up in the bedroom, if I connect the BT home hub to a switch in the lounge will the home network be able to use that internet connection or does it have to be connected directly to the router in the bedroom?

Hope that makes sense.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 08:26

Good to know. Thanks.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 09:01

There is another line and internet connection but that won't be running over the network when the 2nd line is installed.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 09:15

Yea, I barely understand a word of that. As I initially said the home network runs from a router in one of the bedrooms but the BT home hub will be installed in the lounge so I can't directly link the 2.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 10:07

You're losing me now. As I said, we've already got a home network built into the house - the cables run through the walls and are all linked together by a router in 1 of the bedrooms. I specifically don't want the home hub run or controlled from that room though which is why it will be set up in the lounge. All I want to know is whether the internet connection will run on the home network if it's connected to a switch in the lounge or whether it needed to be directly connected to the router in the bedroom where the home network is run.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 14:53

I should have quit after WYNIR0's post. You guys are just confusing me

joeyjojo said:
A picture is needed rather than all this description of bedrooms and lounges.

But I think d_brennen was just saying wire the new router into an existing switch (and disconnect the old router (bedroom?) as I mentioned) and it should all be fine, preferably keeping it gigabit everywhere for best performance.

I can't emphasise enough how little I know about this stuff (yea, I have no idea how I ended up on this forum either). From the little I understand, individual cables from 6/7 rooms in the house run through the walls and all end in 'bedroom 1' and they're then linked together by a router or switch. Correct me if I'm wrong but for the network to work there has to be a router or switch there to join everything together?

My idea was to leave the router/switch in bedroom 1 untouched (it won't have an internet connection hooked up to it) and then either plug the home hub into a switch I've got in the lounge or directly into the wall/home network.

BaZ87 · 15 Jul 2016 at 16:25

Right, understood.

To be honest most of the devices that need to be wired in are in the lounge anyway. There's probably only one other room in the house that needs an ethernet connection and worst case scenario I'll use home plugs.