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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Bieber08154 Jul 2016 10:53Sebastian79 schrieb:
Crimping a plug directly onto the patch cable is possible, but it’s not ideal—especially if the cable needs to be bent at some point. What’s wrong with using a proper wall outlet? Good question. Typical access points are designed to sit flush against the ceiling and connect to the LAN via a plug on the back. I just don’t want to impose having a wall outlet, then the access point next to it, and a 15cm (6 inches) cable between them. Unless the access point also covers the outlet, then you’d need a very short cable with connectors on both ends. That could be quite tight space-wise.
Maybe someone has some photos of their setup...
(By the way: In our house, I only installed standard network outlets at the usual installation height, about 30cm (12 inches) above the finished floor level. We didn’t include ceiling outlets; we probably should have on the upper floor. Since the ceiling is suspended, I could have slid in a cable with a plug end easily. An access point wouldn’t stand out much next to the smoke detector. Oh well, now the device will go on the wall next to the outlet... I can take some photos once I’ve bought and installed the access point...)
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Sebastian794 Jul 2016 10:58You don’t have to impose that on anyone either.
I handle it with connection cables – in my opinion, it simply belongs there and is not an outlier. At least on the ground floor, I have anthracite-colored outlets, even for the ceiling connections. If I were embarrassed about it, I would have made them white.
I handle it with connection cables – in my opinion, it simply belongs there and is not an outlier. At least on the ground floor, I have anthracite-colored outlets, even for the ceiling connections. If I were embarrassed about it, I would have made them white.
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