Looking to improve home network -- advice/input would be appreciated

[JM Aggie08]

We bought our house built in 2011 back in 2014. We have fiber run to the house, DEMARC located outside, and five Cat5e cables being run from the DEMARC to different locations to the house: Kitchen, two in the living room, master bedroom, guest bedroom. These cable are terminated with keystones/wallplates in each of the mentioned rooms. Again, the DEMARC is located OUTSIDE of my house right outside of the garage.

Up until this point, we've simply been using our Asus RT-AC68U as our router/WAP, hooked up to one of the connections in the living room, just to keep things as central as possible. Within the next year, I'm wanting to put some drops into the office so I can finally hard-wire my desktop/work dock to the home network and install PoE cameras around the house. I'd like some feedback on the following to ensure that I'm not doing something wrong/over-complicating things/making generally retarded decisions:

• Run 4 new drops to the office area
• Leave the pre-existing drops in place throughout house.
  • Disconnect/Cut them off from the DEMARC, leave them terminated in the various rooms in the house.
    • Leave two connections still connected to the DEMARC, one where my router currently is (for future owners of the house to simplify things), and another (probably connected to guest room, but discconnect from current keystone/wallplate and pull into new 'network room')
  • Put on new RJ45s at the disconnected/cut ends
  • Run all of the cables into the laundry room through recessed wall plate.
  • Connect Cat5e terminated at DEMARC to current Asus router in laundry room.
  • Run remaining cables into laundry room, connect to this.
  • Connect switch to router.
  • Connect Ubiquiti WAP to PoE port.
  • Enjoy life

This seems straightforward, but I've never implemented anything like this, so any feedback/recommendations would be much appreciated.

 

[ylin0811]

everything looks good. i wouldn't waste money by getting another access point if the current asus wireless router does its job by providing good coverage throughout the house without any drops.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Yea, that's a fair point. The only reason I thought to move the Asus into the room with the switch and purchase a dedicated WAP (not located with switch/router) would be to have everything consolidated in one area, and to have the router closer to the DEMARC (though I don't suspect 30ft v 60ft would make a whole ton of difference).

 

[ylin0811]

60 feet is 18 meters. that's well below the vertical limit of 100meters or horizontal limit of 90 meters.

if i were you, i would run two cat6 (one for wan and one for lan) in between the living and network room, and place the asus router at the center of the house.

if you purchase the wap, you will have to run a cable anyway to the ceiling. this is the same amount of work as placing the asus router at the center of the living room.