New House Build Wireless Solution

uncyspam on 01/09/2020 - 16:23

I am in the process of building a new house. I have asked the electrician to put in a number of roof mounted network ports for me to put up WAP's. The house is largish plus it has a granny flat and large shed, and I want access to all those areas, plus in the outdoor areas near the back of the house.
I've been looking at the various options, and at the moment I'm not sure what to choose.
It will be for streaming videos to tablets or TV's (though most TV's will be hard wired) for smart lights and stuff, network cameras…
There seems to be much love for Ubiquiti stuff, but I haven't used it so I don't know much about it.
I have used Cisco gear years ago, and it was solid, but expensive.
So, collected minds of ozbargain, if you in my shoes, what would you choose?

PS: I have a 48 port cisco POE switch, which I will be using unless there is some very good reason not to.

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  • Kaz0551 on 01/09/2020 - 16:34
    +2

    I am jealous of all these people building new houses. I want to build an old house.

  • bishoz on 01/09/2020 - 16:36
    +1

    48 port? Why? I have a cheap 8 port (Tplink) - minimum power required and perfectly sufficient.
    Are you going to wire your house with CAT6 before the walls go on? That's what I did - and so happy I did it.

    • This Guy on 01/09/2020 - 17:53

      12 camera's, 8 WAP's, 6 LAN ports for 3 Bedrooms, 8 LAN ports between the Master and Office, 2 LAN ports for the Kitchen. 1 in each Bathroom. 4 for the Theater. 4 for the Lounge.

      That's 46. Some rooms will still likely want a switch (a kid's bedroom could have a console, smart TV, computer and smart device).

      I personally would daisy chain switches, but OP has a 48 port, why not use it.

  • boomramada on 01/09/2020 - 16:38
    +3

    I would put network port on every single room, its like $50 per port these days for new builds and end point to garage with in wall enclosure.

  • Aquagen on 01/09/2020 - 16:56

    Just finished my build. 4x2 brick walls.
    Had the builders run conduits to 4 bedrooms. Lounge. And theatre.
    I ran my network cables after handover.
    Bedrooms I run 2 nano hds roof mounted, one for the kids 3 and one for mine and the theatre at front of house. Middle of house is served by the dream machine. Minimum 866mbs wifi connection everywhere on my phone.
    I ran all cables to minor room robe for my server and nvr. Powered by a 8-60 unifi switch.

    Love it.

  • Miami Mall Alien on 01/09/2020 - 17:06
    -1

    PS: I have a 48 port cisco POE switch, which I will be using unless there is some very good reason not to.

    Because it's a house and not an office?

    Do you honestly believe you'll ever have close to 48 network/Internet-connected devices in your own home?

    • uncyspam on 01/09/2020 - 17:21

      because I already own it, so why would I replace it?

      I will easily have more than 20 devices - 8 cameras, 4 or 5 WAP's, 3 PC's… so yeah I might not use 48 ports, but I probably would struggle with 24.

      I am having cabling put everywhere it needs to go. I haven't put it to every bedroom, as there isn't a need for it - all of the devices used in bedrooms are wireless.

      I have cabling to each location that has a TV, to all my camera locations, and to the WAP spots. And to the two offices (wife and I both work from home)

      • Miami Mall Alien on 01/09/2020 - 20:37
        +1

        so yeah I might not use 48 ports,

        So yeah, I was correct in my assumption.

        Forgive me for not having a working crystal ball in my vicinity, you could have mentioned the amount of devices you were intending to hook up to the switch in the first place.

        It sounds like you honestly made up your mind entirely before making this post in the first place, so I'm not sure why you bothered.

  • thatonethere on 01/09/2020 - 17:20

    A typical Cisco 48 port POE switch will be very noisy. Not sure you want that in a house when you are trying to sleep.

    • uncyspam on 01/09/2020 - 17:22

      It will be in an enclosure, in a closed cupboard, in my office, which is away from the bedrooms. Noise won't be an issue.

      • JimmyF on 01/09/2020 - 17:50

        Noise won't be an issue.

        Maybe if you do a fan replacement, but those things are LOUD!!!!!

        • uncyspam on 01/09/2020 - 19:39

          Louder than the two 3D printers, NAS, NVR and two rack servers?

          But seriously, the closet it's all going in is sound insulated, and I've modded fans on everything to be as quiet as possible. I can hear the hum now, and its all sitting in the rack, but at the new house that rack will be in the closet. I will be very surprised if I hear any of it.

  • JimmyF on 01/09/2020 - 17:53
    +1

    I have used Cisco gear years ago, and it was solid, but expensive.

    Still the same these days.

    If I was building, I would be using this

    https://unifi-network.ui.com/dreammachine

    With a mixture of the inwall or the FlexHD units.

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 01/09/2020 - 18:56
    +1

    Highly recommend Ubiquiti.

    Just get a bunch of UniFi LR and run them off your POE. Setup takes minutes with the phone app. You don't even need a controller for a home install.

  • uncyspam on 01/09/2020 - 19:37
    +1

    sweet. I thought Unifi looked the goods and at a good price.

    From what I can tell I can run the controller in a docker instance on my nas.

    Thanks all for you help

  • tedzozb on 02/09/2020 - 15:17

    I would need only 3 LAN ports, 4 POE CAT6 cameras and the rest would be all wireless. I'll just put three routers at the LAN ports.

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