Home network topology
18 March 2003, 08:35 AM
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As my decorators have scaffolding on the front of our house I thought it'd be a good opportunity to start laying cable and I'd value some advice & opinions on a good topology.
3-storey house. Floorplan:
Cable modem and main office resides in the small bedroom at the rear of the property on the first floor.
I'm aiming to get the following qty of outlets per room:
Ground floor reception: 3
Kitchen: 2
Front bedroom (first floor): 2
Second floor bedroom: 2
WLAN doesn't work particularly well in the house. An AP in the small rear first floor bedroom barely provides coverage to the front first floor bedroom and virtually no coverage between floors.
I don't know whether to cable everywhere (with multiple inter-floor cables running at the front and back of the house) or simply provide sufficient inter-floor cabling to put an AP (maybe two) on each floor.
All ideas gratefully received!
L.
3-storey house. Floorplan:
Cable modem and main office resides in the small bedroom at the rear of the property on the first floor.
I'm aiming to get the following qty of outlets per room:
Ground floor reception: 3
Kitchen: 2
Front bedroom (first floor): 2
Second floor bedroom: 2
WLAN doesn't work particularly well in the house. An AP in the small rear first floor bedroom barely provides coverage to the front first floor bedroom and virtually no coverage between floors.
I don't know whether to cable everywhere (with multiple inter-floor cables running at the front and back of the house) or simply provide sufficient inter-floor cabling to put an AP (maybe two) on each floor.
All ideas gratefully received!
L.
18 March 2003, 09:16 AM
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Basically you should run cable from everywhere you want it (or might ever want it) back to a single point. There you can put a patch panel & connect anything to anything else.
I've run all mine to the loft as it was easiest, though somewhere like an under stairs cupboard is better as it is less dusty & more temperature stable.
If you can then you should run CAT5 cable & TV co-ax to several places in each room. I'm running everything in pairs - each CAT5 wall socket is a double one and so is each co-ax. The CAT5 can be used for network, phone or one day an alarm or anything else. One coax is used for TV picture distribution and the other is so that I can feed signals back to the distribution amp from anythere in the house - so Video plays everywhere, CCTV etc.
Think about what you need - then double it - if you are in any doubt - run extra cable - the cable is cheap, its the access that's expensive.
Al
I've run all mine to the loft as it was easiest, though somewhere like an under stairs cupboard is better as it is less dusty & more temperature stable.
If you can then you should run CAT5 cable & TV co-ax to several places in each room. I'm running everything in pairs - each CAT5 wall socket is a double one and so is each co-ax. The CAT5 can be used for network, phone or one day an alarm or anything else. One coax is used for TV picture distribution and the other is so that I can feed signals back to the distribution amp from anythere in the house - so Video plays everywhere, CCTV etc.
Think about what you need - then double it - if you are in any doubt - run extra cable - the cable is cheap, its the access that's expensive.
Al
18 March 2003, 09:16 AM
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Thats some major interference your getting if an AP can hardly provide coverage.
A single AP located centrally on your first floor would be capable on providing good coverage for your size of your home. If you did find out that a single AP couldn't provide enough coverage then some AP's can support wireless repeating which would allow you to extend your wireless coverage in a certain direction
Thats some major interference your getting if an AP can hardly provide coverage.
A single AP located centrally on your first floor would be capable on providing good coverage for your size of your home. If you did find out that a single AP couldn't provide enough coverage then some AP's can support wireless repeating which would allow you to extend your wireless coverage in a certain direction
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