I and my wife are toying with the idea of refurbishing our house.
As a (pleasant) consequence, I've started contemplating what I could achieve on the network side if I had the opportunity to do it all from scratch. I appreciate that my philosophy at this day and age may be (or at least sound) backdated, but I really want to run as much as possible wired and as little as possible wireless for reasons of
i) Transmission speed;
ii) Consistency of transmission speed and network availability;
iii) Reduction of external visibility of my network; and
iv) I simply want as few devices transmitting signals around my children as practically possible
If I was to do this buildout, I would want to do it in the same way I imagine one (at least in theory) would build the physical network of an office building: scaleable, efficient and reasonably future proof.
So, assume that I have a 3-story house with basement. On each floor I want to have 8-12 wired access points to the network. The ISP connection and the main network will be in the basement. Questions:
a) Shall I go for Cat6 Ethernet cabling only or should I (for future proofing purposes) also run an optical cable to each wired access point?
b) I assume I would not pull 24-48 individual cable down to the basement but rather use a router or switch for each floor?
c) How is b) done in practice - would I have an 8-port router on each floor and connect these "floor routers" to a 4-port router in the basement, which in turn connects to the ISP?
d) How is IP addressing sorted out in this type of setup? I imagine the basement router would be a DHCP server which could assign static addresses (e.g. 10.0.1.0 - 10.0.4.0 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0) to the floor routers, who in turn also act as "local" DCHP servers and are in charge over the last 256 addresses per floor.
e) Would a setup like this create a network where any two access points could communicate with each other?
Grateful for any thoughts on this.
As a (pleasant) consequence, I've started contemplating what I could achieve on the network side if I had the opportunity to do it all from scratch. I appreciate that my philosophy at this day and age may be (or at least sound) backdated, but I really want to run as much as possible wired and as little as possible wireless for reasons of
i) Transmission speed;
ii) Consistency of transmission speed and network availability;
iii) Reduction of external visibility of my network; and
iv) I simply want as few devices transmitting signals around my children as practically possible
If I was to do this buildout, I would want to do it in the same way I imagine one (at least in theory) would build the physical network of an office building: scaleable, efficient and reasonably future proof.
So, assume that I have a 3-story house with basement. On each floor I want to have 8-12 wired access points to the network. The ISP connection and the main network will be in the basement. Questions:
a) Shall I go for Cat6 Ethernet cabling only or should I (for future proofing purposes) also run an optical cable to each wired access point?
b) I assume I would not pull 24-48 individual cable down to the basement but rather use a router or switch for each floor?
c) How is b) done in practice - would I have an 8-port router on each floor and connect these "floor routers" to a 4-port router in the basement, which in turn connects to the ISP?
d) How is IP addressing sorted out in this type of setup? I imagine the basement router would be a DHCP server which could assign static addresses (e.g. 10.0.1.0 - 10.0.4.0 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0) to the floor routers, who in turn also act as "local" DCHP servers and are in charge over the last 256 addresses per floor.
e) Would a setup like this create a network where any two access points could communicate with each other?
Grateful for any thoughts on this.