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I'm looking for setting up my home network. I have 5 Floors(Residence) + 1 Floor(Maintainence). Entire home's on automation so network would be very populated. On maintainence floor there is modem fr...
Parth_Goyal wrote:I'm looking for setting up my home network. I have 5 Floors(Residence) + 1 Floor(Maintainence). Entire home's on automation so network would be very populated. On maintainence floor there is modem from ISP and ethernet wire running to all the other 5 floors. So, my entire backhaul is wired.
I'm planning to install Orbi RBK50 on maintainence floor with 5 RBS50, one on each floor.
I would choose Modem(Maintainence Floor) >Orbi RBK50(in Router mode on Maintainence Floor) >non green unmanaged gigabit ethernet Switch(Maintainence Floor) >RBS50(on each floor)
This sounds fine as well since cable is already run.
WAN: Modem/Router(based upon above choice)
Ethernet 1: Non green unmanaged gigabit ethernet Switch(for connecting orbi satellites)
Ethernet 2: Switch for connecting IOT devices(automation, cameras & security)
Ethernet 3: Master computer via Ethernet port 3
However if cable is cat5 and not cat5e or larger, you should run new cable. If so you coould eliminate the switch for connecting the satellites and daisy chain them up the floors.
Parth_Goyal wrote:I'm looking for setting up my home network. I have 5 Floors(Residence) + 1 Floor(Maintainence). Entire home's on automation so network would be very populated. On maintainence floor there is modem from ISP and ethernet wire running to all the other 5 floors. So, my entire backhaul is wired.
I'm planning to install Orbi RBK50 on maintainence floor with 5 RBS50, one on each floor.
I would choose Modem(Maintainence Floor) >Orbi RBK50(in Router mode on Maintainence Floor) >non green unmanaged gigabit ethernet Switch(Maintainence Floor) >RBS50(on each floor)
This sounds fine as well since cable is already run.
WAN: Modem/Router(based upon above choice)
Ethernet 1: Non green unmanaged gigabit ethernet Switch(for connecting orbi satellites)
Ethernet 2: Switch for connecting IOT devices(automation, cameras & security)
Ethernet 3: Master computer via Ethernet port 3
However if cable is cat5 and not cat5e or larger, you should run new cable. If so you coould eliminate the switch for connecting the satellites and daisy chain them up the floors.
Really happy with my Orbi RBR50 but if I was buying equipment now I would spend the extra money for Orbi wifi6 (little more current than my RBR50). The following is what I have:
AT&T Fiber Install. I have three pieces of equipment plugged into the AT&T supplied residential gateway.
•medium netgear switch that is dedicated to my UVerse Set-Top Boxes
•large netgear switch that is only used for my wired connections in the house (with very few exceptions everything is hardwired in a homerun back to this switch, xbox, appletv, computers etc)
•Orbi RBR50 (not using as router, set-up as access point).
The Orbi BR50 has the following two wires connected to it:
•ethernet from the AT&T gateway
•ethernet going back to my wiring closet. (this ethernet going back to my wiring closet is to a small ethernet switch)
The small ethernet switch described in the line above has 4 ethernet wires.
•from the Orbi BR50
•to Orbi BS50 #1
•to Orbi BS50 #2
•to Orbi BS50 #3
There maybe a way to daisy chain between the BR50 and BS50 but this small netgear switch that handles all of my orbi's was the easiest for me to get my head around it (I originally had the BS50's hung off the large switch but it works better now that the small switch is hung off of the BR50 and then the BS50's are hung off that same small switch)
I have a few hard wired connections going to gaming systems from the Orbi BS50 #3 but for the most part the only traffic the BR50, 3 BS50's and the small network swich see if wifi activity.
Works very well.