I would think twice where to make the central location for all the cables coming in from your bedrooms, living room etc. I would say something like closet in the center of your house or possibly even garage where you can have patch panel with all your CAT cables.
When I did remodel about 8 years ago. We ran cables from all the bedrooms, living room, even kitchen to the central place and that central place was my office in the basement. Bed mistake that I did on my planning because my office was converted to the bedroom in a few years down the road.
Also, I wish I ran Cat cable to the front and back door for the doorbell. I would also run cables for the surveillance cameras inside and outside.
The list can go on and on for future home automation if that's your thing, but selecting correct location is crucial!
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From: Chamandeep Singh Grover via Blind-sysadmins
Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 4:12 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Cc: Chamandeep Singh Grover
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] new home network
Hi all,
I am having some building work carried out at my house and since all the wiring is being redone, I wanted to take this opportunity to add a wired network.
Essentially I am thinking to have a couple of connection points in each of the bedrooms on the 1ST floor and in the living and dining rooms as well as an office at the end of the garden.
I am messaging here to get some guidance on accessibility of the network please. I have some basic networking knowledge and having discussed with some professionals, I have been advised to use patch panels, a central switch and ubiquiti wifi access points.
In my family no one else deals with anything that relates to technology so I want to make sure that whatever I am having done is maintainable by myself in an accessible way. Does anyone have any experience with these access points and their admin panel accessibility? What are some other things I should be baring in mind to ensure an accessible and also an affective network?
Perhaps the query isn't very clear above, but I'm basically looking for guidance on how to go about this and have a useful product at the end.
Look forward to your replies.
Kind regards,
Chamandeep Singh Grover
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