Question House nearly built need advice please

[Aussienut]

Good afternoon all,

My wife and i are building a house and from the getgo, we knew there were 2 wireless hard points in the house. One on the first floor and one on the second. I have started to research what I may need in the last month as we are three weeks away from completion. The cable modem will be in the basement and each hardpoint has an ethernet cable going down to where the modem will be. We have two computers total which will be tied to the cat 5 outlets we have in the main room on the first floor and we will have two Apple TV, two Samsung TV and three consoles plus two phones that will be using the wireless at any given time.

I have been looking at the Ubiquiti PRO and I assume I'll need the Unifi Switch 8 also as the cable modems ports will all be used but the two computers and two hardpoints and it only has 4 ports. May i get some advice if this would be the way to go or another brand. I thought about doing a google mesh also but i'm not sure how that would go.

I appreciate any advice and thank you all for your time!

 

[RememberThe5th]

What my brother has done, from router main one he will split from swich (better get balancer to equalize the speed), to rooms.
Also pull for every one backup just in case.
One or two ports, and wifi ethernet adapter which do exist and thats how you get very good wifi in every room, just make sure to merge the wifi mesh (I really do not know how to do that)
This is how my brother did, and Im very very suprised.

 

[jsmithepa]

If u know u need one WIFI access point on each floor then building-wise as long as there is an Ethernet outlet in every floor (well ideally, at least one in every room) ur all set.

I will let others suggest what kind/type of access point.

 

[Ralston18]

Start with the following link:

https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/219051528-UniFi-Setting-Up-UniFi-for-Beginners

Then:

https://dl.ubnt.com/guides/UniFi/UniFi_AP-Pro_UG.pdf

Key is to plan out the network and connectivity as you envision the network to be.

Then use the above links and other similar resources to plan the final layout and configuration.

Details matter and spending "up front" time to plan is likely to be well worthwhile.

And the process will help you learn and perhaps identify other questions and issues.

 

[ElectrO_90]

You won't go wrong with Ubiquiti, what you say in your post makes sense.
As long as you get PoE, then all is good.
Also, are you sure the wall plugs are Cat 5 and not Cat5e or 6? Or maybe you just wasn't sure.

https://inwall-hd.ui.com/ - recommend for your living area if you have your consoles there as well 4 ports on it
https://inwall.ui.com/- use for rooms
These are what I started to use in houses - this way you get Wifi and a cat socket as well.
Not ugly and hidden and really fantastic
this switch as well
https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-8/

 

[Aussienut]

You're all amazing people thank you so much I have some great advice here.

 

[kanewolf]

I have just converted my house to Ubiquiti. You can choose the AC-PRO or the nano-HD if you want smoke detector style units. The 8 port 60W ubiquiti switch is an excellent choice. If you buy individual APs in retail packaging, they come with POE injectors. For two units, you could use the injectors. Both the AC-PRO and nano use 48V POE. If you buy a non-ubiquiti swtich be sure it supports 802af or 802at POE.
You will want to run the controller software for configuration. You can buy the cloud key and have an always-on device or you can run it on a laptop just long enough to do setup.

 

[mlee 2500]

Good afternoon all,

My wife and i are building a house and from the getgo, we knew there were 2 wireless hard points in the house. One on the first floor and one on the second. I have started to research what I may need in the last month as we are three weeks away from completion. The cable modem will be in the basement and each hardpoint has an ethernet cable going down to where the modem will be. We have two computers total which will be tied to the cat 5 outlets we have in the main room on the first floor and we will have two Apple TV, two Samsung TV and three consoles plus two phones that will be using the wireless at any given time.

I have been looking at the Ubiquiti PRO and I assume I'll need the Unifi Switch 8 also as the cable modems ports will all be used but the two computers and two hardpoints and it only has 4 ports. May i get some advice if this would be the way to go or another brand. I thought about doing a google mesh also but i'm not sure how that would go.

I appreciate any advice and thank you all for your time!

I will say this: EVERY house I've ever had, no matter how good the WIFI coverage, I've always wished that I had cat5 (well, cat6 now days) in every room.

 

[jsmithepa]

I will say this: EVERY house I've ever had, no matter how good the WIFI coverage, I've always wished that I had cat5 (well, cat6 now days) in every room.

Unfortunately according to realtor it doesn't up the value of the property when it comes selling time 🙁

 

[nigelivey]

What my brother has done, from router main one he will split from swich (better get balancer to equalize the speed), to rooms.
Also pull for every one backup just in case.
One or two ports, and wifi ethernet adapter which do exist and thats how you get very good wifi in every room, just make sure to merge the wifi mesh (I really do not know how to do that)
This is how my brother did, and Im very very suprised.

What on earth are you talking about "better get balancer"? "merge the wifi mesh"? LOL