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Help with home network

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crustybooger

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I've just spent the last two days wiring my house with cat5e and now I'm not sure how to get everything connected together. This is how it is setup right now:

25/25 fiber connection being fed into the basement, from there I ran cat5e to every room in the house. The problem I have is that some bedrooms and the entertainment room require multiple devices to be connected. ie the entertainment room has a PS3, xbox360, apple tv, and a htpc. Then one room has a ps3 and a desktop and so on.

Wireless isn't a option, even with wireless n the best signal I could get was 30%, which was what led me to wire the house in the first place. I've been doing some research and I'm not to sure how to go about it. I currently have a netgear wndr3700 and a dlink Dir-655. From what I've been reading would I be able to just buy a switch, plug that up in the basement. Then place a router thats connected to the switch in the rooms that need multiple connections into those routers?


Thanks!
 
you ca n just get some little switches for each room, why didn't you run more than one cable to each room in the first place?
 
Use your netgear at the point where all of your cat5e connections meet.

Then place a switch at each room and connect it back to your netgear switch with your new lines. Make sure you place gigabit switches at each location and you should achieve a gigabit speed connection back to the netgear.

Hook up your Dlink to the Netgear and you should be good.

You're the first person I have heard of that wired a house with cat5e and didn't have a clue what to do when it was complete. Hopefully you pulled more than one line for each room.
 
A small 5 port switch at the point of use with a single run back to a core switch.

So it should be Internet-->--Router-->--Switch-->living room switch.

I like to use Dell powerconnect switches, they are cheap, simple, and reliable. Not sure how many ports you need, but a 24port 10/100/1000 switch can usually be had from ebay for about $100 new or used.
 
I'm an idiot, didn't even think about running multiple lines until after I was putting on the keystone jacks. Do I need to mess around with any settings on the router for the switches to work or are they pretty much plug and play?
 
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