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Originally Posted by Zeste  In my home building saga, the framing is going to be going up in probably 2 weeks, so I need to get my shit together.
For my home network wiring, I am essentially going to be running Cat5e and Coax to every room, but with a few places having more than 1 cat5e port.
I figure in the end, my house will have probably 15~ network ports (which can be used for phones, also). I am putting 4-6 behind the TV, since I figure that each game console could use one, my slingbox, my AppleTV, and probably soon Satellite receivers. Is this the best way to do a wired network? Or could I put a switch/hub behind the TV and just have 1 cable running to the data box in the utility room? It seems like I shouldn't have to run 6 cables from the TV area to the data box, but maybe I do.
Also, in the utility room, my TV/internet will be coming in from the street, so I'll have the modem/router in there, but what do I do with my 15~ cat5e's that are all there now? Get a 16 port switch and then just plug 1 cable from the switch to the router? how does that work? |
Run another switch off of your main switch, have the second switch downby the tv with one cable running to it, i'd reccomend the Cisco home switches so you can tinker with spanning tree if you so desire, linksys will work just as well. Gig-e will be cost prohibitive, as will cat 6. stick with the 5e. Ideally yor setup should be as simple as possible. Never use a hub.