Posted: 10/20/2016 4:44:06 PM EDT
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Hey guys:
I have a Motorolla cable modem and a nice Netgear Dual Band Wireless N router. The problem is I only have 4 Ethernet ports on the router and that's just not enough. And being a 2-story house, the router isn't really in a great spot currently for WIFI In addition to having multiple devices that want internet hooked to my TV, I also want to hardwire my NAS, desktop, etc. I have a Cat 5e "hub" downstairs, IE that's where all my cables are run to. 2 cables to each bedroom and 2 cables to the living room. I could also run a cable from there directly to the living room if needed. Long story short- can I go "out" from my router (2nd floor), through the cable to the basement, and then put a switch there and wire that to all the other cables in the house? My concern is that it's too many connections. Router (upstairs) - cable - wallplate - cable (in-wall) - SWITCH (downstairs) - cable (in-wall)- wallplate - cable - device A slightly better alternative (maybe?) would be to put my cable modem and an 8-port switch in the basement, and then "serve" the router on another floor? I mainly don't want my wireless router in the basement. But I am not sure that would even work, because the router is more than just a glorified switch. Is this too confusing- do I need an MS paint drawing? |
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I did the same thing at my house. Have a "smart panel" where all the cables come in from all my rooms. The 3 most important I have plugged into 3 ports on my router. 4th router port goes to a switch that the rest plug in to. I've had no issues so far. I could do that however I'm not sure I want the router in the basement. I feel like the signal won't be strong enough on the 2nd floor and in the kid's rooms. Maybe it would... But thanks for reading and the suggestion. |
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I think what you suggested works:
Long story short- can I go "out" from my router (2nd floor), through the cable to the basement, and then put a switch there and wire that to all the other cables in the house? My concern is that it's too many connections.
Router (upstairs) - cable - wallplate - cable (in-wall) - SWITCH (downstairs) - cable (in-wall)- wallplate - cable - device Use the open port on router upstairs to go back downstairs (thru cable in wall) to switch in the basement. I don't think you'll notice any performance issues. |
| Long as you're on the LAN (vs WAN) ports of the modem and/or WAP, it all distributes by cable just fine. My cablemodem has only one ethernet port, which I run to a WAP with four LAN ports, that distribute to five or six other switches, and connect all my wired devices. Some of those wired devices use powerline connectors through a single powerline connector attached to one of those switches. Each of the remote powerline connectors attaches still another WAP as a network extender, and has additional wired devices attached to the WAP's LAN ports. |
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Cool, I think I can make this work. Thanks for listening to my overly complicated post. If I make some changes I'll post about it later. I think a single 5-port switch should be able to get it done.
I was worried about signal loss with all the different cables. |