ᐅ Network components?

Hello everyone,

We are about to discuss the necessary details with the electrician. We have fiber optic internet in the house and plan to install nearly 16 LAN outlets (Busch-Jaeger). The house is quite large and has an irregular layout with a reinforced concrete ceiling.

I have a few questions for the professionals in advance:

- Which category cable should be installed? (Future-proofing!?)
- What repeaters/antennas should be planned on site?
- Which manufacturer of the 16-port patch panel is recommended?

Best regards,
Barossi

Hello,
first, a quick question:
Are you planning 16 double sockets, 8 double sockets (16 connections), or 16 single sockets?
In the first case, you should make sure that you can connect all 32 ports on your patch panel.
In the last case, you might want to consider installing double sockets and the corresponding cabling instead.

Hello Jochen,
we are planning 16 different connections at the patch panel, meaning in one room there will be double outlets in some cases (living room, office), but also single outlets (guest room, kitchen, etc.).

Best regards, Barossi

- CAT 7 cable
- none... you only realize afterwards if you need any... and then you can simply connect an access point to one of your outlets.
- The manufacturer who meets the standard... so basically it doesn’t matter...

Barossi schrieb:
Hello everyone,
- Which Cat cable should be installed? (Future-proofing!?)

CAT 7. When purchasing, make sure the wires are made of solid copper (if you plan to install them yourself). Cheap cables often have an aluminum core and are only copper-coated on the outside. In that case, you’ll get 100 Mbit/s instead of 1 Gbit/s. Unfortunately, you only notice this after the cables are already inside the walls. 😉

- Which repeaters/antennas should be planned for during construction?

I agree with the previous poster. I wouldn’t install anything fixed here. The technology changes too quickly for that.