examiga1990
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I’m running cat 6 cables round my house. At the moment I`m on a standard ISP 80/20 FTTC connection. I have as my Gateway modem/router a ZYXEL XMG3927-B50A this goes into a Netgear 8 Port Gigabit Unmanaged switch then via an outside run of cat5e cable to a TP-Link Archer AX50. Then from the same Netgear switch a cat6 outside cable to another TP-Link Archer AX50 (these 2 TP-Link Archer AX50 are set up in AP mode)
I have several things connected to these routers signal seems good all round house either off the cable or from the 3 routers Wi-Fi (different CHs) I wanted to run some more cat6 cable to either 1 or 2 more locations from a spare port on one of the TP Link routers. If I needed the 2nd cable run could I just connect up another Netgear switch from the router and run from there.
I was not sure what the quality/speed loss would be having all these cable runs and switches/routers (all 1GB speeds switch/routers). When I can get it I will move up to Full Fibre (FTTP) at the moment I`m getting about 72 to 74+ Mbps speeds. I just did a speed test at 5.30pm today and got via wifi on my laptop a speed of 69.9 Mbps from one of the Routers connected up via cat6. So for normal standard FTTC speeds it’s not too bad. So will I be OK to add more cable if I wanted?
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I have several things connected to these routers signal seems good all round house either off the cable or from the 3 routers Wi-Fi (different CHs) I wanted to run some more cat6 cable to either 1 or 2 more locations from a spare port on one of the TP Link routers. If I needed the 2nd cable run could I just connect up another Netgear switch from the router and run from there.
I was not sure what the quality/speed loss would be having all these cable runs and switches/routers (all 1GB speeds switch/routers). When I can get it I will move up to Full Fibre (FTTP) at the moment I`m getting about 72 to 74+ Mbps speeds. I just did a speed test at 5.30pm today and got via wifi on my laptop a speed of 69.9 Mbps from one of the Routers connected up via cat6. So for normal standard FTTC speeds it’s not too bad. So will I be OK to add more cable if I wanted?
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