The Commander
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I need some help in designing my home network - what are the best places to put the equipment.
I will be having a house rewire so will be asking the electrician as part of his rewire to run some additional ethernet cabling which I will contect up.
I am just looking at a simple network. So my thoughts are as follows.
1) The virgin media connection comes in to living room at the front of the property. This is where the Virgin Router will be unless I can hide it away somewhere.
2) I need network points in 2 rooms downstairs, and 3 bedrooms upstairs. The downstairs rooms can be accessed from the cellar below which runs the length of the property. I assume cabling for the rooms upstairs its easier to run it through the loft?
3) I can place the switch either in the cellar (though it is a little damp), the loft - though it can get very warm and access is only via a loft hatch, or a first floor storage cupboard which has no ventilation.
4) I would also like to wire up two ip cameras.
So to wire the network up I will need one cable running from the switch to the Virgin router. Then all the 5 points to be wired into the switch.
Shall I go for cat 6 or cat 5e cabling - from what I read - cat 5e is better for runs as its less rigid than cat 6?
What do I need?
1 Crimping tool
1 switch
6 ethernet wall jacks
100m of ethernet cable
Crimpable connectors
I will be having a house rewire so will be asking the electrician as part of his rewire to run some additional ethernet cabling which I will contect up.
I am just looking at a simple network. So my thoughts are as follows.
1) The virgin media connection comes in to living room at the front of the property. This is where the Virgin Router will be unless I can hide it away somewhere.
2) I need network points in 2 rooms downstairs, and 3 bedrooms upstairs. The downstairs rooms can be accessed from the cellar below which runs the length of the property. I assume cabling for the rooms upstairs its easier to run it through the loft?
3) I can place the switch either in the cellar (though it is a little damp), the loft - though it can get very warm and access is only via a loft hatch, or a first floor storage cupboard which has no ventilation.
4) I would also like to wire up two ip cameras.
So to wire the network up I will need one cable running from the switch to the Virgin router. Then all the 5 points to be wired into the switch.
Shall I go for cat 6 or cat 5e cabling - from what I read - cat 5e is better for runs as its less rigid than cat 6?
What do I need?
1 Crimping tool
1 switch
6 ethernet wall jacks
100m of ethernet cable
Crimpable connectors