The basic setup here is 2 years old, but I've been playing with placement of some items & have recently added the Netgear switch so I could get rid of the AT&T Gigapower router as noted in this thread. Feel like it's all in a good spot right now hence the post.
I had someone come out & run some strategic CAT6a in the wall so that I could get hardline connections to the necessary spots without going overboard & wiring the whole house/needing a network rack somewhere.
Fiber is run to the side of the house in a front room that would normally be a formal dining room (it's instead an extra living room/reading room – no TV). I had an old APC that I have it hooked up to so that I'm protected from any brown-outs that frequently happen in my neighborhood. When this APC dies will probably get something smaller, but as is it's all usually hidden by a narrow drawer unit.
Straight up from the ONT is my office, so it's an easy in-wall run up to there. Comes out from the wall into the Netgear, then over to the USG, and then the USW 8 60W. They're all protected by the APC unit mounted on the wall to the right. 7&8 on the USW go back into the wall & then up to long unused runs in the attic, eventually to be front & rear outdoor cameras. 5&6 power the USW & UAP (detailed below). 4 goes up to my desk, and 3 goes back down next to the ONT (because it was easy & why not – have no planned use for it).
The UAP AC Pro was mounted on the ceiling in a corner of the kitchen closest to the middle of the house. Main living room is open to the kitchen & those two rooms are where we spend most of our time so it's sufficient. The house is a recent build that's all wood/drywall so we've got no special considerations there. I've got a separate network set up for IoT which I've disabled the 5G network on so that the Nest Doorbell out front has a stable connection.
The USW 8 is in the media cabinet & is PoE powered from the USW 8 60W in the office. 8 is passthrough PoE to power the Cloud Key. 6&7 are aggregated for the Synology. 3 goes to the TV on the IoT network (have a firewall rule so that it can access Plex on the Synology). 2 goes up to the PS4 (Static IP on the main network w/ UPnP).
After all that, topology is super simple. Have been very happy with the whole thing.
The basic setup here is 2 years old, but I've been playing with placement of some items & have recently added the Netgear switch so I could get rid of the AT&T Gigapower router as noted in this thread. Feel like it's all in a good spot right now hence the post.
I had someone come out & run some strategic CAT6a in the wall so that I could get hardline connections to the necessary spots without going overboard & wiring the whole house/needing a network rack somewhere.
Fiber is run to the side of the house in a front room that would normally be a formal dining room (it's instead an extra living room/reading room – no TV). I had an old APC that I have it hooked up to so that I'm protected from any brown-outs that frequently happen in my neighborhood. When this APC dies will probably get something smaller, but as is it's all usually hidden by a narrow drawer unit.
Straight up from the ONT is my office, so it's an easy in-wall run up to there. Comes out from the wall into the Netgear, then over to the USG, and then the USW 8 60W. They're all protected by the APC unit mounted on the wall to the right. 7&8 on the USW go back into the wall & then up to long unused runs in the attic, eventually to be front & rear outdoor cameras. 5&6 power the USW & UAP (detailed below). 4 goes up to my desk, and 3 goes back down next to the ONT (because it was easy & why not – have no planned use for it).
The UAP AC Pro was mounted on the ceiling in a corner of the kitchen closest to the middle of the house. Main living room is open to the kitchen & those two rooms are where we spend most of our time so it's sufficient. The house is a recent build that's all wood/drywall so we've got no special considerations there. I've got a separate network set up for IoT which I've disabled the 5G network on so that the Nest Doorbell out front has a stable connection.
The USW 8 is in the media cabinet & is PoE powered from the USW 8 60W in the office. 8 is passthrough PoE to power the Cloud Key. 6&7 are aggregated for the Synology. 3 goes to the TV on the IoT network (have a firewall rule so that it can access Plex on the Synology). 2 goes up to the PS4 (Static IP on the main network w/ UPnP).
After all that, topology is super simple. Have been very happy with the whole thing.
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