Punchboard, Switch?

[antivirus6613]

I am having a custom home built with 12-15 cat5e ports (1-2 in each room). There is a guy doing all the wiring ( he is wiring all the cameras (IP) gates and all electronics). He put a Leviton panel in the basement where he is putting all the wires ( cat5e) he said that its a punch board and you just plug in your internet line and then you plug in your cat5e cables and you get internet. I want all the devices on a network with IP's and so they can file share and other stuff. Most people i talked to said that punchboards dont give out IP's.

So i was thinking after he left i would put a gigabit switch and plug everything into it which would then give it internet and IP addresses

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: antivirus6613
I am having a custom home built with 12-15 cat5e ports (1-2 in each room). There is a guy doing all the wiring ( he is wiring all the cameras (IP) gates and all electronics). He put a Leviton panel in the basement where he is putting all the wires ( cat5e) he said that its a punch board and you just plug in your internet line and then you plug in your cat5e cables and you get internet. I want all the devices on a network with IP's and so they can file share and other stuff. Most people i talked to said that punchboards dont give out IP's.

So i was thinking after he left i would put a gigabit switch and plug everything into it which would then give it internet and IP addresses

switches do not assign IP's or share internet.

 

[antivirus6613]

Wait they dont?

Anyways since they dont is there any other way for me to have these devices get an IP, i know a router but there isnt one that supports 16 or 24 and i need something like that.

 

[MedicBob]

A router does do what you want. Use the router to hand out IP addresses, DHCP, or set them static, you configure them. Plug the router into the switch along with everything else.

Google private IP addresses, routers, Network Address Translation, and simple home networking. That should get you started. Also ask away here. Alot of people can and will help you out.

 

[antivirus6613]

Plug a router into my punchboard and then stuff in there and then they get ip's

 

[networkman]

Punch board? Do you mean to say patch panel? Does it look anything like this? http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=42337#

The patch panel is where all of your network cables in the wall are connecting to the various rooms in the house. Wherever your internet line comes in, you would plug that line into your router. Some routers have built-in switches, and you would plug one end of a nework cable into the switch, then plug the other end of the cable into the associate port on the patch panel so as to connect the device in whichever room you want, be it a PC or printer or whatever.

 

[MedicBob]

As Networkman said...

Plug WAN(incoming) cable into the WAN port on the router. Then plug the LAN port into a larger switch if the 4 or 8 port routers are not enough. Then have you Patch Panel plugged into the larger switch.