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lover
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2 years ago

Please help. Optimising home wifi

Have bitten the bullet with Virgin 1gig after trying to serve 30 home devices with copper 60mb. I'm in an FTTP (rfog I think) zone and plan to run Cat 6 around the house to around 7 access plates. My house is a detached two floored Dutch bungalow with 3 bedrooms, a study, living room and kitchen. The virgin cable will come into the Living Room corner at one extreme of the house i.e. bottom corner. 3 of my devices have 2.5gb NICs. I do love a wired connection. Anything is possible here including supplying POE. Current thought is go Asus route using eg AX6000 as router and others as APs but previously I thought about on ceiling POE APs? What would you do in this situation to maximise connectivity..it's doing my head in!!?

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  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    Superstar
    2 years ago

    One thing to note is the HUB 5x, used for FTTP locations, does not currently have a modem mode so you'll have to deal with double NAT when using a third-party router.

    With that many wired connections I'd suggest a 10Gbps POE switch plugged into the 10Gbps port on the HUB 5x.

    The switch will deal will all the traffic between devices, and the HUB 5x will still be in router mode (Wi-Fi disabled as required) dealing with DHCP.

    You can then use POE APs across your home without the need for additional power in those locations.

    Something like:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-10-Port-Multi-Gigabit-Managed-MS510TXPP/dp/B075FCFP9B

    1 x 10Gbps uplink port to the HUB 5x

    4 x 1G for APs

    2 x 1G/2.5G and 2 x 1G/2.5G/5G for three devices with 2.5Gbps NICs (One spare).

    One further thing to note is you mentioned RFoG which means you may be provided with a HUB 5 and the fibre is converted to coax from a wall box in your home to the HUB. The HUB 5 has a 2.5Gbps ethernet port, however the above should still work. The HUB 5 does have a modem mode, so you could use your own third-party router with additional access points. I use two Asus routers, one in AiMesh mode, which used a 2.5Gbps wired backhaul and has been working well for several months.

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    2 years ago

    I have 3 ceiling mounted PoE AP’s over my property and it works well. The router is non wifi btw and my Hub 5 is in modem mode.