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Good evening all

Customer has requested we wire his house so that he can have a wireless router on each floor. Is this possible?

In addition We are wiring every room with a Ethernet point from one central location. Will this system work and allow client to have wireless for each floor?

He has also requested by point in every room. Is it a good idea to run cat5 in a daisy chain for by or just pull single cable to each room from central location?

Thanks
 
You don't want a separate wireless router on each floor, you want to use plug-in wif-fi range extenders. Nice and simple, no wires - just a plug in module. Takes the wif signal from the main router and boosts it. Or you could take CAT 5 from the main router to a switch/hub on each floor. Depends how easy the wiring access is. Daz
 
Run a separate cat 5 to each point you can't run 2 items on one cat5 so daisy chain is out , Can't see a problem with multiple routers either but I'm sure there is other ways to do it rather than using routers
 
As above, use wifi range extenders. Or you could use home plug wifi transmitters, interwebz pushed down the socket wiring then out from a wifi transmitter at any chosen socket.
 
If they are only going to use BT points than daisy chain it but you would not be able to use them as data points in the future if you are fitting a patch panel I would run separate cat 5 to keep it future proof Smart TVs and the like all use hard wire data AND THE CUSTOMER MAY CHANGE THERE MIND ON there use:)
 
We are running seperate cable for the Ethernet to each room and thinking about pulling in second cable for Bt from same location. So basically 2 x cat 5 in one back box. Will the Bt side be simple to connect up or will we need to call in a specialist to connect up?
 
I don't know enough about how routers work. Just trying to find out how I should wire the place so it's future proof.

Future proofing the house ? forget about cat5 then. Cat5e handles faster speeds, and cat6 is certified for gigabit speed use. If they want gigabit routers in for fast speeds to the wired points, then long runs of cat5 may prevent the optimum speeds being achieved.
 
TELEPHONE points are really easy if you already have cat 5 to each room for the data then daisy chain a the second cat 5 for the telephone you only need 1 pair for the telephone line so you could run up to 4 lines down 1 cat 5
 
Wouldn't you take by points back to one central point? Thought that with daisy chains maximum you could have was three?

Incase I can't check messages thanks all for the pointers
 
I think your right on 3 phones per line the safest option it to run separate cables to each point but like I said if you cant run separate cables then by using the cat 5 you can use the blue pair for point 1 the ,orange pair for point 2, green pair for point 3 and brown pair for point 4 , you will need 2 pairs for a master phone point though
 
Future proofing the house ? forget about cat5 then. Cat5e handles faster speeds, and cat6 is certified for gigabit speed use. If they want gigabit routers in for fast speeds to the wired points, then long runs of cat5 may prevent the optimum speeds being achieved.

IIRC, the max length recommended for Cat 5 is 100m. after that, data transfer rate will drop significantly.
and if i've read the first post correctly, the customer wants wifi available all over the house and an ethernet point in each room?
bit excessive, but if that's what he wants :)
i would just run your selected cable (prob best using Cat 6) to each room and back down to a patch panel somewhere convenient (under the stairs is always a popular place.
hope this helps. if not, tuff :tongue3:
 

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