Hello, I just purchased my first house and it has a cabinet of spaghetti in the office and I don’t know what it’s for or how to use it. But it does look expensive so if I can make it useful to me then I’d like to!
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Shit this sub is awesome! So just to make sure I’m understanding 100%. I should put in a new switch. And then when I instal my WiFi, I plug the router into any Ethernet port in the house, and then every Ethernet port in the house should be active??
Yup.
You could even put a non-Wifi router inside that enclosure with the switch and then sprinkle access points around your home.
Yeah. Most people on this sub would kill to move into that setup, btw.
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If your house is big, consider setting up something like one of those mini computers with a router os like opnsense, and using wifi AP's at the other ends of one or more of the cables. I have a used omada eap225 on the ceiling of my top floor and it covers the whole house. Benefit is if you want to upgrade to next gen wifi down the line you only replace the AP and reconfigure wifi passwords, and the rest of the network is unaffected.
Yes. Keep in mind the several ports that are plugged into the phone module (the middle module on the top set of three). You can easily turn those ports into ethernet ports by unplugging them from the telephone module and plugging them into a switch, but you'll need more switch ports.
I have a setup similar to this but in Australia the internet comes into the house via HFC (coax). Given that there are Coax outlets in every room, am I right in thinking that I plug in the router in a given room, and then all ethernet points will work?
What you're looking for is a MoCA network. It won't be cheap, but it is possible. You'll need an adapter in every room you want wired internet, and high quality splitters. Setting up a Powerline network might be cheaper. But quality of that will be dependent on the quality of your electrical system.
Personally I'd rather have multiple connections to the router. If that's a shelf in front of this setup, I'd be tempted to put the router there and give each switch it's own connection directly to the router. With the switches currently there you'd replace the blue cable connecting them (port 8 on left, port 1 on right) with a cable from each to the router. It splits the maximum possible devices that would be competing for bandwidth to the router.
Of course if that's a terrible place for the wifi then I'd do what you said.
On soho routers with a handful of ports, usually the ports are just switchports connected to one logical LAN interface anyway. Don’t think it’d make a difference.