home smart panel structure wiring

[abice]

Hi everyone,

I have a home smart panel that I am trying to set up and organize. I live in a newly constructed home and they have wired Cat 5e and Cat6 to each room as well as coax for cable hook, however, they left me with a mess of wires in the smart panel. I had Direct Tv tone out all the coax cables for the rooms, but I want to set up the ethernet ports in each room.

My current set up is that the time warner line comes into the house meets in the smart panel and connects to a coax line for my upstairs office. I have a Netgear CM600 modem only which connects to an Asus RT AC3100. What I would like to do is hook the modem up in the closet where the smart panel is so that i can connect to the ethernet CAT 5e and CAT 6 lines. I need to know if I can hook the modem up in the smart panel and then go into an ethernet switch, I would still have the router upstairs in my office, I planned on hooking the router up to the ethernet port. I'm wondering if this is possible the diagrams that I am seeing are internet to modem to router to switch, what I am proposing is internet to modem to switch to router.

If that won't work then I would need to keep both the modem and router upstairs in the office and then wire an ethernet back to the smart panel where the switch would be, I think...

I would also like to know if there are some good structured wiring components that I can use in my smart panel for organization, I need to organize the cat 5e and cat 6 wires and coax cables, I think I will need a good switch, if you can recommend a good website when I can find these products it will be helpful. I have been looking on Newegg for a good switch I have 300mb internet so I would need a switch that is 10/100/1000 as a bare minimum.

Thanks
Adam

 

[getochkn]

No, you need the router after the modem because the router handles the internet distribution, IP addresses, and all the "routing" stuff. Putting the modem directly into a switch doesn't work since a switch is dumb and can't route anything.

 

[jsmithepa]

Ethernet router or WIFI router? If ethernet, why does it have to be in your room?

Standard setup is, all infrastructure equipment in one place, near your structure panel, then CAT cables distributes all signals to rooms. Not etched in stone.

CAT cables from room is typically terminated on type 66 punch block (Google for picture) or (better) RJ45 patch panel like THIS.

 

[abice]

It's a wi-fi router. The majority of my devices are connected through wi-fi. I have a work computer and 2 Xbox's to hook up through wire connections.

So the correct path is to go into the router which is in my office and then from router to the ethernet port which will connect to the smart panel box where the switch will connect to the other rooms in the house.

I can't put the Router in the closet with the smart panel because it will block the wi-fi signal

 

[jsmithepa]

So the correct path is to go into the router which is in my office and then from router to the ethernet port which will connect to the smart panel box where the switch will connect to the other rooms in the house.

According to info provided, that's one way to do it but you will need 2 CAT runs to you room, one into the WAN port of the router, and a return back to the panel to the switch.

OR if you have a COAX run to your room, place the modem in your room as well, then you just need 1 coax run, 1 CAT run.

 

[abice]

Yes exactly, I have the coax up there, so it would be coax to modem to router to ethernet to switch (in smart panel), correct?

 

[jsmithepa]

Fine.