Where do you place your router?

Ice_Black · 25 Jan 2020 at 12:22

I've bought new house recently and I am getting ethernet wiring done soon in all the rooms. The switch and patch panel will be placed in my office/computer room.

I will be going with Vigin ISP. I am not sure where I should place the router?

Where do you place your router?

wedrum · 25 Jan 2020 at 12:26

Somewhere central of the house

bremen1874 · 25 Jan 2020 at 12:33

It’s going to depend on:

where you have available
Where the incoming line is
Whether you’re using the wireless on the router or not

Avalon · 25 Jan 2020 at 12:59

Obvious question: If you are taking the time and effort to run cable to each room, then surely that also includes feeds for a dedicated AP, at which point it doesn’t matter where your ISP supplied SH3 is. If you choose to run it in modem only mode, the router would likely be upstairs with the rest of the networking kit.

andy_mk3 · 25 Jan 2020 at 13:08

My modem is under the stairs, my router is in an outhouse, and my wireless AP is on the ceiling in the landing.

Sparkylad · 25 Jan 2020 at 14:27

Among what others have previously said.
Also it depends how small or big your house is, if its big with 3+ bedrooms then it doesn't matter where you put the router as you'll then need Access Points, that is if you want fastest WiFi speeds possible for your mobile devices.

Firestar_3x · 25 Jan 2020 at 17:59

3m under the cinema seating stage, which is super convenient to reset!

Unifi access points through the house though.

Valo · 25 Jan 2020 at 18:48

Cabinet housing my NAS, Patch panel, Router and Switch are in my garage. BT g.fast modem connects into a CAT5 point directly beside my phone point, taking the connection to my router in the garage.

When I upgrade my router to something with Wifi 6 (hopefully later this year) I'll probably add a wireless AP to increase my wifi coverage range even more.

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Jan 2020 at 18:57

It's as close to the incoming phone wall socket as possible. I then have a single cat6 cable going to the centre of my cab which goes to a switch then from there each room has 2 network points.

My net cable from router to phone socket is about 5cm long.

Ice_Black · 26 Jan 2020 at 13:44

Avalon said:
Obvious question: If you are taking the time and effort to run cable to each room, then surely that also includes feeds for a dedicated AP, at which point it doesn’t matter where your ISP supplied SH3 is. If you choose to run it in modem only mode, the router would likely be upstairs with the rest of the networking kit.

Can Engineer install SH3 upstair?

bremen1874 · 26 Jan 2020 at 14:54

They split my cable so the router was upstairs and the TV connection downstairs. This was over 10 years ago.

Avalon · 26 Jan 2020 at 15:38

Ice_Black said:
Can Engineer install SH3 upstair?

Within reason, yes. However reason does not include crawling about in loft spaces, lifting floorboards or carpets etc. so if you need anything like that, you prep the install path or it’ll be refused. To be honest I’d just run a feed to wherever you want the modem from upstairs, the chances are as you are running to each room anyway it’ll be easier/beater to do it at the same time.