Hello,
we are planning our new build with a developer and have an appointment with the electrician soon.
I am working on the LAN planning.
I will plan enough LAN connections for every room and also in the garage.
Should we use a mesh Wi-Fi router system, for example Netgear Orbi, Amazon Eero (one unit on each floor or in the most important rooms, which can be expanded as needed if there are coverage gaps) or something similar, or does it have to be an expensive PoE access point network?
I would say we are users with a higher-than-average standard.
I want to have good Wi-Fi coverage throughout the house so that I always have enough Wi-Fi on my phone for browsing.
A speed of 50–100 Mbps on the phone would be sufficient, but it should be stable (we will have a 500 Mbps or maybe only a 250 Mbps connection).
Do the access points have to be PoE devices mounted on the ceiling, or is that maybe a bit too much for us?
Or is a regular mesh router system (e.g., Netgear Orbi) enough for us?
Running the PoE cables will most likely be very expensive with the electrician (typical for developer projects :/ ).
we are planning our new build with a developer and have an appointment with the electrician soon.
I am working on the LAN planning.
I will plan enough LAN connections for every room and also in the garage.
Should we use a mesh Wi-Fi router system, for example Netgear Orbi, Amazon Eero (one unit on each floor or in the most important rooms, which can be expanded as needed if there are coverage gaps) or something similar, or does it have to be an expensive PoE access point network?
I would say we are users with a higher-than-average standard.
I want to have good Wi-Fi coverage throughout the house so that I always have enough Wi-Fi on my phone for browsing.
A speed of 50–100 Mbps on the phone would be sufficient, but it should be stable (we will have a 500 Mbps or maybe only a 250 Mbps connection).
Do the access points have to be PoE devices mounted on the ceiling, or is that maybe a bit too much for us?
Or is a regular mesh router system (e.g., Netgear Orbi) enough for us?
Running the PoE cables will most likely be very expensive with the electrician (typical for developer projects :/ ).
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fromthisplace14 May 2022 22:06Thank you both!
Does that mean you would tell the electrician to leave a keystone with little to no cable coming out of the ceiling, to which I would then connect a patch cable?
Does that mean you would tell the electrician to leave a keystone with little to no cable coming out of the ceiling, to which I would then connect a patch cable?
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RotorMotor15 May 2022 02:36No, not from the ceiling. It should be a keystone in a box.
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fromthisplace15 May 2022 09:04RotorMotor schrieb:
No, not from the ceiling.
It should be a keystone in a flush-mounted box.So, I specify a flush-mounted empty conduit box in the precast ceiling to our general contractor, and the electrician pulls the network cable through a conduit there?
What type of box should I tell the general contractor to install?
Its diameter should definitely be (significantly) smaller than the mounting plate of the access point, right?
The image in post #58 illustrates this quite clearly. However, choose a deep flush-mounted box.
Which access point will it be? Installation guides are available for almost all models, often including drilling templates. These also usually show the size of the mounting plate.
Which access point will it be? Installation guides are available for almost all models, often including drilling templates. These also usually show the size of the mounting plate.
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fromthisplace15 May 2022 11:03Thanks, I will inform our site manager of this request tomorrow:
A deep flush-mounted box at the spot where the electrician will later pull the network cable.
Unfortunately, the basement ceiling is already installed. I will ask if it’s at least possible to chisel away some of the concrete around the empty conduit so that the keystone module can fit there. It’s a bit of a shame that Unifi doesn’t offer taller spacer rings for this situation.
My gut feeling is that it will be either the NanoHDs or the 6 Lites. I haven’t done much research on this yet.
So far, my approach has been: What is the network? -> Can I handle it myself? -> Where do I need it? -> What needs to be discussed with the electrician? -> Components?
Is the request for the site manager okay as it is?
How would you handle a network cable coming out of the ceiling that doesn’t have a flush-mounted box yet?
A deep flush-mounted box at the spot where the electrician will later pull the network cable.
Unfortunately, the basement ceiling is already installed. I will ask if it’s at least possible to chisel away some of the concrete around the empty conduit so that the keystone module can fit there. It’s a bit of a shame that Unifi doesn’t offer taller spacer rings for this situation.
My gut feeling is that it will be either the NanoHDs or the 6 Lites. I haven’t done much research on this yet.
So far, my approach has been: What is the network? -> Can I handle it myself? -> Where do I need it? -> What needs to be discussed with the electrician? -> Components?
Is the request for the site manager okay as it is?
How would you handle a network cable coming out of the ceiling that doesn’t have a flush-mounted box yet?
I don’t understand why you are bringing this up in a different thread now:
... but you obviously still don’t understand: You don’t need two cables (cabling cable and patch cable running in parallel) inside the conduit to your ceiling access point. Only the cabling cable runs through the conduit, and starting at the keystone in the flush-mount box, a patch cable or pigtail continues to the access point!
So finally get a professional involved — and this is NOT a demolition expert for the concrete slab, but a network installer.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
fromthisplace schrieb:
We installed our network outlets as described in post #49. So, a total of four outlets for ceiling access points. Unfortunately, I overlooked that there should also be an in-wall flush-mount box next to the cabling duct. The first precast hollow-core slab is now installed above the basement. The electrician only installed a conduit from the ceiling. I probably won’t have a chance to run both the cabling cable and patch cable to the access point, right? For the next two slabs, I already informed our site manager about the need for an in-wall flush-mount empty box. But I was pressed for time and don’t know if this can still be done. How would you proceed in my case? Have the concrete of the hollow-core slab broken up so there is room next to the conduit for the cabling cable and the access point can be installed above? I have been annoyed for days that I missed this tip back then:
MBPassion schrieb:
You should instruct the electrician to use a deep flush-mounted box because the terminated cabling cable will still need to be connected to the access point via a short patch cable.
... but you obviously still don’t understand: You don’t need two cables (cabling cable and patch cable running in parallel) inside the conduit to your ceiling access point. Only the cabling cable runs through the conduit, and starting at the keystone in the flush-mount box, a patch cable or pigtail continues to the access point!
So finally get a professional involved — and this is NOT a demolition expert for the concrete slab, but a network installer.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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