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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
Hey need to ask this so I can understand fully, and there seems to be very smart people for tech here. I'm building a house and one of the options im going to do is have a cat6 or cat5e outlet for every room in my house. Telus is giving us 1 year free service thru the builder. Their boxes run on cat 5 cable or coaxial...so here is my confusion:
how does the network map look?
The house is fibre fed so there will be a modem somewhere in the basement. The modem then goes to one single jack that is split thru out the house? Or does each jack I have in each room have a
corresponding jack in my electrical area? Will I need a switch?
Thx in advance  |
The service will terminate in your basement for sure, and it will most assuredly (unless you get the worst installer ever) end up right next to the patch panel that the builder will install for you. Regardless of whether you end up with CAT5e or CAT6 etc it will all terminate to a patch panel which you will need to connect via a switch. The switch may be built directly into your TELUS modem/router, however you may want to consider purchasing a larger Gig switch so that you can have each and every RJ-45 plug in the house patched into the switch. Then you simply run one uplink from the switch to the TELUS gear and you should be off to the races.