Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 21, 2016 8:50 pm Hi, I am building double story house 5 bedrooms (38.2 sqaures) in The Ponds (NBN suburb) in North West Sydney. Appreciate any advice from those who had build double story house on how to set up the network. Where to keep the router and do I need access point for upstairs. Also do I need wired set up or wi fi will be enough. thanks.... Re: Home network set up in double story house 2Jan 22, 2016 2:41 pm Hi, We are putting smart wiring and automation system in our new home. We have a store room attached to our garage, where the stairs are for the second floor. All network wiring will be on a patch panel. We have advised the builder to install NBN equipment and conduits for the NBN on the store. If you need any information let me know. Re: Home network set up in double story house 3Jan 22, 2016 2:50 pm the house is large, so you will need more than one WiFi transmitter to cover the whole house sufficiently with WiFi. You should as a minimum put one Ethernet port in each room, more in the living/theater areas. you can put the router wherever as long as you think about your networking situation first. I would recommend you do some research into home networks, look for some diagrams that will help you understand the set up. Do a search in the forums, the topic has come up quite regularly. Things to conssider - how many TVs will you have (even if you dont have smart ones now, you will), gaming consoles, net phones, printers, planning on a media server, computers, future net enabled devices etc. Work out how many of these you will need and how they will connect up to your network and then develop a network plan from there. Creator of superduperonium, expert at expert things, nobel laureate, can hold my breath for 10 minutes. Re: Home network set up in double story house 4Jan 22, 2016 2:58 pm Thanks kereninotech and Ponzu... I found some info on whirlpool forum and most of them have mentioned that wired network is always better than wifi. So I am thinking to place the router and 16 or 24 port switch in the garage and add data points in each room with additional in the media, family room and rumpus room. Will set up wifi transmitters as well. thanks We bought land in Tallawong Schofields NSW size 30m X 12.5m and planning to get double story house build around 350 sqm. We are thinking about having premium inclusions… 0 4074 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8374 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14189 |