We just bought a new house. Keen to have comments on my plans for data networking.The house is four years old, about 200m2 two levels: with living, office and master bed on upper level; kid/guest bedrooms and garage on lower. The upper floor is timber.Phone outlets in master bed, office and kitchen. Satellite (no UHF coverage) via coax to all bedrooms. 4 years old and they didn't fit any network cables :facepalm:.Our collective current and future uses of the network include: media streaming, web surfing, gaming downstairs only (including multi-player online gaming). We will gradually build a Sonos network.I can get Cat 6 cables run down the internal walls on the upper levels, by a guy I have used before who does a good job. It will be slow work, so my thinking is run the fewest number of cables and install switches. A switch costs about $40, as does an hour of labour. I also think it will be easier to have clusters of devices connect into a switch than have say 6 cables into a wall plate. But hey I'm new at this so my assumptions maybe wrong. I'm thinking the following: - Office (middle of upper level): -- Modem into existing phone outlet- 2 x RJ45 wallplateA) Cat 6 to loungeB) Cat 6 to master bed- Gigabit Wifi router (4 port)1) NAS2) Gigabit switch (5 port) i) Sonos unit ii) Printer/Scanner iii) Dyna dock iv) Spare v) router3) To wall plate A4) To wall plate BLounge: -- 1 x RJ45 wall plate- 8 port gigabit switch1) Samsung 'Smart' BD player2) DVB-S reciever4) Onkyo 2 zone network receiver5) Future Smart TV6) Future HTPC7) Spare8) To wall plateBedroom: -1 x RJ45 wall plate- 5 Port gigabit switch1) Sonos Unit2) BD Player3) Smart TV4) DVB-S decoder5) Spare6) To wall plateThe bottom level will have to make do with WiFi. I think the signal will be OK through the floor. but I can install a wi-fi repeater if I have too.
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