m@rk
Prominent Member
Hi
I am soon to move into a new build house. Unfortunately I didn’t get to it before second fix so have missed the boat on some cabling options so will have to retrofit
in my previous home I had a full Ubiquiti UniFi system with a network rack in my office (where my PCs and NAS are connected with 10G Ethernet) feeding the rest of the home however in the new home I am trying to get my head around some options. Thus this post.
I can get full fibre to my house at 900mb (although I may only go for 500mb) and I understand this terminated on an ONT which will be right next to my front door. I understand there is then a copper Ethernet cable from the ONT to the ISPs modem. I assume this is gigabit Ethernet but would then question if you can genuinely get 900mb real world throughout over a 1000mb Ethernet connection as normally 80% is your best bet. But I digress
My office is upstairs so at first I thought I could run an Ethernet cable (copper or maybe fibre) back out the house, up the wall and into my office and then connect the ISP router to that, the ONT on the other end and then connect the ISPs hub into my rack. So far, I think this is not asking too much.
But I would also like to connect my network back downstair so rather than run 2 Ethernet cables outside, I was wondering could I use a switch downstairs?
Have one port on a dedicated VLAN for the ONT to connect up to the ISPs hub upstairs also on a dedicated port and then have a second port/s on separate VLANS to get back downstairs to other ports and other devices (such as access points) on the same switch
if the ONT is simply talking Ethernet then this all looks straight forward but finding any firm info online is proving difficult so any help is welcome. Is that ONT to ISPs hub really simply Ethernet or is their telco witchcraft at play here?
Thanks
I am soon to move into a new build house. Unfortunately I didn’t get to it before second fix so have missed the boat on some cabling options so will have to retrofit
in my previous home I had a full Ubiquiti UniFi system with a network rack in my office (where my PCs and NAS are connected with 10G Ethernet) feeding the rest of the home however in the new home I am trying to get my head around some options. Thus this post.
I can get full fibre to my house at 900mb (although I may only go for 500mb) and I understand this terminated on an ONT which will be right next to my front door. I understand there is then a copper Ethernet cable from the ONT to the ISPs modem. I assume this is gigabit Ethernet but would then question if you can genuinely get 900mb real world throughout over a 1000mb Ethernet connection as normally 80% is your best bet. But I digress
My office is upstairs so at first I thought I could run an Ethernet cable (copper or maybe fibre) back out the house, up the wall and into my office and then connect the ISP router to that, the ONT on the other end and then connect the ISPs hub into my rack. So far, I think this is not asking too much.
But I would also like to connect my network back downstair so rather than run 2 Ethernet cables outside, I was wondering could I use a switch downstairs?
Have one port on a dedicated VLAN for the ONT to connect up to the ISPs hub upstairs also on a dedicated port and then have a second port/s on separate VLANS to get back downstairs to other ports and other devices (such as access points) on the same switch
if the ONT is simply talking Ethernet then this all looks straight forward but finding any firm info online is proving difficult so any help is welcome. Is that ONT to ISPs hub really simply Ethernet or is their telco witchcraft at play here?
Thanks
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