In our new house (ground floor, upper floor, basement with about 140 m2 (1507 sq ft) of living space), every room has a network cable connection (CAT-7 simplex). Both Wi-Fi and wired network are planned for us. We can either place the router in the hallway on the ground floor and extend the signal to the basement and upper floor using repeaters. A CAT-7 duplex connection is planned in the hallway for this. Alternatively, we could install the access point with the router in the basement. I’m not sure which solution is better. Apparently, repeaters don’t always work very well.
Does anyone know if access points are significantly better? If several access points are distributed throughout the house and connected to the network by cable, where should the router be located? In the basement? Will the Wi-Fi reception on the upper floor be good? How exactly does this work? Many thanks.
Does anyone know if access points are significantly better? If several access points are distributed throughout the house and connected to the network by cable, where should the router be located? In the basement? Will the Wi-Fi reception on the upper floor be good? How exactly does this work? Many thanks.
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toxicmolotof3 Jul 2016 11:27Both are correct, depending on the technology used.
Uwe82 schrieb:
Well, having 2 APs has the disadvantage that you have to manage both separately. There is a CAT cable at the spot, but it was unnecessary. And why buy a separate PoE injector for that? Why manage 2 times? For me
Uwe82 schrieb:
Well, having 2 APs has the disadvantage that you have to manage both separately. There is a CAT cable at the spot, but it was unnecessary. And why buy a separate PoE injector for that? What do you have to manage on an access point? It just passes the connection through! Assign the password once and that’s it. It’s best to work with fixed IPs from the start.
77.willo schrieb:
Unfortunately, that’s not correct. Every standard repeater in your network significantly reduces the data rate since it cannot transmit while receiving packets. So, with a repeater, packets spend twice as long in the air, effectively halving the data rate. Interference with other networks is also doubled.
Did I say otherwise?! Who cares if only half the packets get through or something else. The question here is about the technology to be used, and that is clearly a LAN cable from the router to the “Wi-Fi extension point.” Whether packets are halved or not does not help the person asking at all.A LAN connection also requires a power connection. This is the safest approach and allows you to connect everything there. Later on, you could even place a NAS or something similar at that location.
This is how I solved it:
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Bieber08154 Jul 2016 10:05MENGPQI schrieb:
In the basement is the central point where all network cables from all rooms meet. A router such as the FritzBox 7360 is planned there. On the ground floor, in the hallway under the ceiling about 30cm (12 inches), I plan an additional network outlet and power socket, where an access point will be installed.It makes sense to have all network cables converge in the basement or utility room, arranged in a star topology. At this point, a patch panel is installed, with the network cables terminated on the back side of the panel. A switch is then connected, with short LAN cables linking the patch panel to the switch. The switch is also connected to the router (for example, a FritzBox).
The FritzBox does not necessarily have to be located in the utility room. If you install dual LAN outlets, you can place the FritzBox in the hallway, with LAN cables running from the FritzBox to the utility room and back. This setup offers better Wi-Fi and DECT coverage.
For Wi-Fi coverage, I would suggest placing an access point approximately in the middle of each floor. A LAN cable should be installed for this purpose, which may not be connected to a wall outlet but instead terminated directly with a connector. The access point is then connected directly to this cable. A switch that supports Power over Ethernet (PoE) is necessary. In some cases, two switches are used: a larger one for the regular network and a smaller PoE switch for Wi-Fi (and IP cameras, etc.).
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Sebastian794 Jul 2016 10:43Switches that support PoE are quite expensive – I have a Cisco model here, but I wouldn’t recommend it for a typical household. I will probably change it soon because the device uses too much power running 24/7 (60–70 watts). There are injectors that can do this more cheaply – well, then you have passive PoE and no Gigabit LAN, but that shouldn’t really matter.
Crimping a connector directly onto the cable is possible, but it’s not ideal – especially if the cable needs to be bent afterwards. What’s wrong with using a proper outlet?
Crimping a connector directly onto the cable is possible, but it’s not ideal – especially if the cable needs to be bent afterwards. What’s wrong with using a proper outlet?
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