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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Manatarms12311 May 2022 07:25Thanks for the tip. So, should we have all the LAN cables for the access point installed with a Keystone module?
Do the LAN cables need to be replaceable? Once they’re installed, nothing really happens to the cable, right? Cat7 is definitely sufficient for the future.
Are there even LAN cables that short? And can you then tuck them away under the access point if it’s mounted on the ceiling?
If neither you nor the electrician had mentioned this, I would have just left the cable hanging out.
Do the LAN cables need to be replaceable? Once they’re installed, nothing really happens to the cable, right? Cat7 is definitely sufficient for the future.
Are there even LAN cables that short? And can you then tuck them away under the access point if it’s mounted on the ceiling?
If neither you nor the electrician had mentioned this, I would have just left the cable hanging out.
Manatarms123 schrieb:
If neither you nor the electrician had said anything, I would have just had the cable hanging out.This is basically the universal "know-it-all ready" solution, in case—unfortunately, quite often—the electrician, to put it politely, has "no specialized knowledge about ICT."https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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The person in charge simply does not care; they usually don’t think for themselves, especially if it means extra work that was not requested. It doesn’t matter whether they would have known better or not.
Manatarms123 schrieb:Yes and yes. You have the flush-mounted box where you can coil the remaining part of the installation cable with a keystone connector. Don’t leave too much hanging out, otherwise, you won’t be able to fit it underneath. There is no space for that inside the access point casing.
Are there even such short LAN cables? And can you then stuff them under the access point if you mount the access point on the ceiling?
Araknis schrieb:
Don’t let it hang out too much, otherwise you won’t be able to fit it in. There is no space for that inside the access point housings. The Unifi APs still have room for a few centimeters (inches) of cable.
sysrun80 schrieb:
The Unifi APs still have room for a few centimeters of cable.Yes, maybe for the thin patch cable. But definitely not for a rigid installation cable with a keystone connector.sysrun80 schrieb:
The Unifi APs still have room for a few centimeters of cable.It depends a lot on the installed access point. Behind my old Lite model, there is just enough space for the RJ45 plug of the patch cable.
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