Hello everyone,
I hope the topic description fits my question. Our house is now turnkey ready. The electrician rolled up all the network cables and hung them under the circuit breaker panel in the utility room.
For cost reasons, I would like to connect the cables to the patch panel myself.
I have 6 network outlets in the house. So I need a patch panel with at least 6 ports. A network switch and a Fritz!Box are already available.
Which patch panel would you recommend?
What else do I need to connect to the patch panel?
The "small thin gray" cable is the telephone connection, right? Which connector do I need for that?
I hope you can give me a bit of guidance.
I hope the topic description fits my question. Our house is now turnkey ready. The electrician rolled up all the network cables and hung them under the circuit breaker panel in the utility room.
For cost reasons, I would like to connect the cables to the patch panel myself.
I have 6 network outlets in the house. So I need a patch panel with at least 6 ports. A network switch and a Fritz!Box are already available.
Which patch panel would you recommend?
What else do I need to connect to the patch panel?
The "small thin gray" cable is the telephone connection, right? Which connector do I need for that?
I hope you can give me a bit of guidance.
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famke_ausb29 Aug 2016 22:56Because this way, all network devices are actually centrally located.
But the more I read into the topic, the more I tend to think of placing the router in the living room.
Upstairs, the signal would then be ensured via an access point.
If the router is in the living room, wouldn’t a double network outlet be sufficient? The spots on the wall would then be taken, but I still have three free ports on the router. I only use the TV, very rarely the Blu-ray player, and perhaps later a LAN-enabled AV receiver.
Wii U and Fire TV receive the signal via Wi-Fi.
But the more I read into the topic, the more I tend to think of placing the router in the living room.
Upstairs, the signal would then be ensured via an access point.
If the router is in the living room, wouldn’t a double network outlet be sufficient? The spots on the wall would then be taken, but I still have three free ports on the router. I only use the TV, very rarely the Blu-ray player, and perhaps later a LAN-enabled AV receiver.
Wii U and Fire TV receive the signal via Wi-Fi.
famke_ausb schrieb:
If the router is in the living room, isn’t a double network socket enough? That only works if you route just the phone line through one socket and the internet through the other. But what if you still have a fax machine or an ISDN phone to connect to the router? Then you’d need additional ports, unless you modify the cables (not all wires are used).
Ours stays in the utility room, and there will probably be a separate access point in the hallway on the ground floor; so far, it’s just a repeater.
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Bieber081530 Aug 2016 06:57famke_ausb schrieb:
Because then all network devices are actually housed centrally. That is an end in itself, but of course you can do it that way! I personally see more advantages in placing the Fritzbox in the hallway: without any messy cabling, I can also place the phone base centrally next to the Fritzbox, and at least on the ground floor I have DECT and, of course, central Wi-Fi.
This is the problem with devices that have all functions integrated. Ideally, I would want the modem/router in the basement where the patch panel is, but the Wi-Fi and DECT should be on the ground floor.
I see two options:
1) Fritzbox in the basement, with DECT registered directly there, Wi-Fi disabled, and access points on each floor.
2) Fritzbox on the ground floor, DSL coming through the telephone socket from the basement, and LAN cables running back down to the basement. An additional access point on the first floor.
How do you handle the handover between access points with Wi-Fi? For example, when going upstairs and being seamlessly switched to another access point? Use a separate access point with its own SSID, or have you dealt with roaming?
I see two options:
1) Fritzbox in the basement, with DECT registered directly there, Wi-Fi disabled, and access points on each floor.
2) Fritzbox on the ground floor, DSL coming through the telephone socket from the basement, and LAN cables running back down to the basement. An additional access point on the first floor.
How do you handle the handover between access points with Wi-Fi? For example, when going upstairs and being seamlessly switched to another access point? Use a separate access point with its own SSID, or have you dealt with roaming?
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