Home networking

CoastingHatbox

Quorden said:

Having done something similar to what you're planning some ten years ago, hard wire to every room, I'd very much echo a couple of the comments already made about mounting wireless access points which in hindsight I'd wish I'd done at the time and save myself having to re-plaster walls.

Reason being is that I've found that over the years the requirement for hard wiring has all but disappeared (for me at least) and now the only things left connected are a gaming PC and the CCTV system. Everything else, multitude of mobiles and laptops, tv's etc run quite happily together on the wireless network. 

This will depend very much on your wireless environment. There's a lot of 2.4Ghz congestion here and for working from home, we both found the WiFi to be inadequate. And then someone nearby setup a mesh WiFi system which seems to use most of the allocated band and it became hellish.

Don't get me wrong, the WiFi is absolutely fine for casual use, but for working from home its terrible.

I have some replacement access points to install, which means some stuff can be moved over to 5Ghz. The half-duplex nature of WiFi can cause issues for some latency sensitive applications too.

Quorden

Appreciate everyone's experience and use-case is different, but currently have four adults (Thanks Covid!) working from home on Zoom / Teams and cloud based app's pretty much all day and the wi-fi isn't an issue at all.

That being said the boy did convince me to splash out on what I think are decent AP's (https://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-ac-pro-indoor-outdoor-access-point-uapacpro-p-6638.html), plus get about 350MB broadband download, so I'm guessing all the parts contribute to the experience.

CoastingHatbox

Running two Unifi UAPs.
Have two new Unifi WiFi6 Lite APs to install. I just need to get the structured network in place to run them from a PoE switch as they weren't supplied with injectors (I think the old UAPs are 802.11AF and the new ones are 802.11AT).

I've stripped, battoned and insulated what will be the comms cupboard and channelled the walls. Said cupboard needs boarding out. Then just to affix conduit, cable runs, sockets, open frame rack, patch panels etc..

All the kit is here to do it. It's just stalled behind another DIY project and extended family commitments!

arciere

CoastingHatbox said:

Running two Unifi UAPs.
Have two new Unifi WiFi6 Lite APs to install. I just need to get the structured network in place to run them from a PoE switch as they weren't supplied with injectors (I think the old UAPs are 802.11AF and the new ones are 802.11AT).

Some UniFi UAP use proprietary PoE injectors that don't follow the standard.