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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...
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.