NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
New House - Orbi Options
I am currently having a new house built. The builder installs a 30" network cabinet with a homerun to the exterior of the home for ISP service. They aslo provide Cat 6 to 2 ceiling loctions for PoE WAP and to mutiple places, I have 5, for TV to be hardwired back to the cabinet. I am also adding to ports in a small office. The house is about 2600 sq feet.
I am looking at putting Obri in and hardwiring TVs so I will need a small (8 port) switch. I think I want the Obri to run in AP mode. Would I still plug the router/modem from the ISP into the Orbi and then plug the Orbi into the switch or would I plug the switch into the modem/router? I want to keep this simple and user friendly. I want to ensure I can still stream from my wireless devices to wired devices. Any advise would be apperciated.
Thank you
14 Replies
ISP modem to swtich then to Orbi or you can go from ISP modem and have both RBR and Switch connected to the modem in parallel.
IF you want to connect the RBS wired, then you can follow this:
Is there any advantages or disadvantages to either set up you mentioned. I will have enough ports on the switch to backhaul the RBS too.
if you wire connect the RBS, then you'll need a switch after the RBR or directly connect the RBS to the BACK of the RBR. The connection configuration for the RBS needs to be at the RBR, not in front or at the modem or switch in front of the RBR.
RandallTG wrote:I am currently having a new house built. The builder installs a 30" network cabinet with a homerun to the exterior of the home for ISP service.
What kind of "homerun to the exterior" is this? (Coax? ethernet?)
I would want the ISP device to be in this telecom location. Cable companies use Quad Shield Coax. Some ISP's install a conversion box on the wall outside and want ethernet to run inside the house. Some want to bring fiber into the house.
Advice: buy a gigabit switch with more ports than you think you need, especially more PoE ports.
They will run both coax and cat 6 to the exterior. Yes that is my goal to have the ISP modem in the telecom box. I want the ISP modem/router and switch in the telecom box and the orbi centrally located in the house.
RandallTG wrote:They will run both coax and cat 6 to the exterior. Yes that is my goal to have the ISP modem in the telecom box. I want the ISP modem/router and switch in the telecom box and the orbi centrally located in the house.
What a wonderful opportunity (green with envy!)
Might consider how an ISP will deliver a fiber optic cable to this telcom box. My son in North Carolina recently got fiber, which involved the installer going through the crawl space (1928 era house) and drilling up through the floor. May not be practical in your case, whereas a PEX cable from the telecom box to the outside would make fishing fiber optic cable simple.
The idea of "more PoE ports" is in the area of security cameras. When I got into security cameras, running ethernet cable to the locations where I wanted cameras was a nightmare, so I purchased WiFi cameras. (As, it turns out, was finding electrical outlets nearby for the WiFi cameras I purchased.)
p.s. I'm not sure how practical ceiling mount WiFi access points are, but during construction, ethernet cable installation is cheap. Afterwards, not so much.
