After all the renovations at our house, I was inspired and decided to upgrade the Home Network a bit, but this upgrade will not really be hardware but more getting the wiring organised.
The goal of this exercise was to have more network points throughout the house, making it more accessible especially when you have to copy that big file across and wireless just don’t crack it.
So after my DIY exercise, I managed to get 8 points at 4 different locations :
1. Study #1 – My Study
In this study I placed a 3 port sunken in faceplace, but as you can see the end product was a bit like the way IT people do DIY … lol – the leveler had some kind of bug in – I’m sure.
2. Study #2 – Wife’s Study
Added 3 network points with 2 double wall boxes. The 4th network point is forwarded to our Lounge/Kitchen area.
3. Lounge, Kitchen Area
In the lounge I have one point that connects my Mvix to the network on hardwire, as wireless sometimes gave some issues whilst streaming.
4. Kids room
Last but not least, there is one network point in one of the kids room for later expansion.
I tried to keep the network cabling as tidy as possible, and obviously I’ll improve at a later stage. I decided to put the network switch and router above my door in my study room, which is central to most locations in the house, and out of the way.
As you can see I only have my old 4 port wireless router at the moment, so that means at the moment only 4 of the 8 ports is live. I plan to add another Gig switch here for faster copy between machines, as 100 MB is not enough.