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amheck

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We're moving into a new house soon and I'm confused at to how best to set up my networking setup. Looking for suggestions, comments, etc.

The main house is wired for cable. The mother-in-law suite, which is the 2nd floor, over the detached garage, about 30 feet away from the main house, will be my home office.

Scenerio 1: put the cable modem and router in the living room of the house. This will allow me to hook up the VoIP phone adapter to the router. The 1 PC in the house and then the 2 PCs in my office will then need to be wireless. I'm worried about the distance between the house and my new office, also considering they are not on the same level (1st story vs second story).

Scenerio 2: run a coax line from the main house to the apartment in the rear. This will allow me to be wired into the cable modem and router directly while I'm working most of the day, which would be nice. No wireless to mess with. The 1 computer in the house can be on wireless cause we won't use that much. The main problem I see here is how the heck would I hook up the VoIP phone in the house, when the cable modem and router are in a different location?

Hope that makes sense to you guys......I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have.

Aaron
 
Once you get your dialtone with a voip setup, you can do wonders. Put the modem where the most computer usage will be, and use cordless phones with remote charging bases for the phone.
 
yeah, I guess I could. Never thought of that......What's the longest distance you can have from PC to router? If I meet the minimum length, could I just buy a hub/switch for the back office, and hook a few PC's back there?

Aaron
 
If you run the Cat5e outside, make sure you have it in a properly grounded pipe. Just stringing it from one building to the next is a violation of building code. Do not run the cat5e through the same as the AC lines. But i would see more use as a wired for everyone. This way you could also add the VOIP in the office too.

Router inside main house. line running from patch panel inside house to patch inside office. Small switch inside office to plug in whatever you want for the office. Limited to the number of ports on switch. and 100 meters is the limit for single distance.
 
A CAT5e cable can go no more then 100meters before signal attenuation occurs. So long as the distance between your Office and the Router is less then 100meters you should be ok.
Here's what you do: Modem and Router in the living room with the VoIp phone. Take a good cable (cat6 prefered for quality)from the router and run it to your office and connect it there to a switch. This will segement your network and cutdown on access usage by the broadcast calls. That should give you ok quality, although if there is a problem with the modem and/or router, you have to go all the way to the living room to see what the prob is. might be kind of a hassle. Good Luck!
 
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