- Dec 22, 2015
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Hello all. Love the forum, come here alot but first time posting. Have a new home and looking to wire it up for the present and future.
Ok the nitty gritty. In the center of the house is the living room currently with cable modem (difficult to move only one cable coming into house) Netgear WNDR3700v3 wireless router right next to the modem with theater pc (wired can't be moved hooked to tv)
Now on the other side of the house which the wifi reaches but does fade in & out , there is a set top streaming box, a Directv hub (powers wireless receivers around the house), awaiting install ... a NVR for security cameras (needs to be hard wired) and soon alarm system (wired).
Now the cameras are POE so I will be running cat5 all over the place to each exterior corner of the house to the NVR, but the NVR also needs to be hard wired and located on far end of house. I'm awaiting response from support but read (customer review) that the NVR needs to be connected directly to the router, and that it won't allow remote viewing if wired to a switch. Not sure if this is set in stone but the cameras are ip cameras so I imagine this could be true.
But to add a little complexity to the equation, would like to add a switch for the alarm, set top box and directv hub to be wired for more reliable streaming.
I guess I'm looking for suggestions, there are a lot of different ways to go, but what's best for speed & reliability?
I have a few old routers and a new 4 port gigabyte switch still in the box that can be used, or is there a better option i could buy? The set top box, directv hub, and NVR all require quite a bit of bandwidth.
So far im thinking two cat5's from router to backside of house one for NVR, other for switch, or relocating the router to backside of the house (two cat 5's) and running another back to the switch in the living room with Theater pc & tv wired to it. That would leave me one port short hardwiring everything in the backside of the house but would fix wifi signal issues.
Appreciate any advice you pro's can give. Cheers
Ok the nitty gritty. In the center of the house is the living room currently with cable modem (difficult to move only one cable coming into house) Netgear WNDR3700v3 wireless router right next to the modem with theater pc (wired can't be moved hooked to tv)
Now on the other side of the house which the wifi reaches but does fade in & out , there is a set top streaming box, a Directv hub (powers wireless receivers around the house), awaiting install ... a NVR for security cameras (needs to be hard wired) and soon alarm system (wired).
Now the cameras are POE so I will be running cat5 all over the place to each exterior corner of the house to the NVR, but the NVR also needs to be hard wired and located on far end of house. I'm awaiting response from support but read (customer review) that the NVR needs to be connected directly to the router, and that it won't allow remote viewing if wired to a switch. Not sure if this is set in stone but the cameras are ip cameras so I imagine this could be true.
But to add a little complexity to the equation, would like to add a switch for the alarm, set top box and directv hub to be wired for more reliable streaming.
I guess I'm looking for suggestions, there are a lot of different ways to go, but what's best for speed & reliability?
I have a few old routers and a new 4 port gigabyte switch still in the box that can be used, or is there a better option i could buy? The set top box, directv hub, and NVR all require quite a bit of bandwidth.
So far im thinking two cat5's from router to backside of house one for NVR, other for switch, or relocating the router to backside of the house (two cat 5's) and running another back to the switch in the living room with Theater pc & tv wired to it. That would leave me one port short hardwiring everything in the backside of the house but would fix wifi signal issues.
Appreciate any advice you pro's can give. Cheers
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