I just wrapped up 4 hours in the design center for the house my wife and I are building.
90 minutes of it was with the electronics saleswoman.
16 CAT5e drops throughout the house (CAT6 isn't an option)
All of them terminating in a 42" Cabinet (can't remember what she called it as this is not my area of expertise) to be hidden in the closet of my home office.
The cabinet can house a switch and AT&T DSL Modem.
I would like to know the following:
- Can I use Gigabit Switches (main cabinet and another smaller one [Netgear GS108 that I already have] in the server rack going into my home office)
- Can I get decent speeds/bandwidth throughout the house?
- Suggestion on a switch to handle the traffic?
- Thinking a 24 port gigabit switch
- I plan to add 2 WAPs off of 2 of the network drops for those areas where there won't be a hard wired connection
- Suggestions on WAPs?
- N or stick with G?
I would rather spend the money now up front and get it done correctly then spend more money later. My wife and I both run our businesses out of our home so a good network infrastructure is important. Currently she is on WiFi and the signal to her office isn't great and she is always complaining about the connection dropping or terrible bandwidth
90 minutes of it was with the electronics saleswoman.
16 CAT5e drops throughout the house (CAT6 isn't an option)
All of them terminating in a 42" Cabinet (can't remember what she called it as this is not my area of expertise) to be hidden in the closet of my home office.
The cabinet can house a switch and AT&T DSL Modem.
I would like to know the following:
- Can I use Gigabit Switches (main cabinet and another smaller one [Netgear GS108 that I already have] in the server rack going into my home office)
- Can I get decent speeds/bandwidth throughout the house?
- Suggestion on a switch to handle the traffic?
- Thinking a 24 port gigabit switch
- I plan to add 2 WAPs off of 2 of the network drops for those areas where there won't be a hard wired connection
- Suggestions on WAPs?
- N or stick with G?
I would rather spend the money now up front and get it done correctly then spend more money later. My wife and I both run our businesses out of our home so a good network infrastructure is important. Currently she is on WiFi and the signal to her office isn't great and she is always complaining about the connection dropping or terrible bandwidth