Communication of Internet cables in the apartment. What is the best?

Good afternoon.

I have been looking for an answer to my question for a long time, but everywhere there was some different advice. I found your site and I see that you have very cleverly explain everything. I want to say right away that my question will probably seem very amateurish, so if you do not want to answer – it’s okay)).

I have a long time ago made repairs in the apartment and at the moment the situation is with the Internet. There are 4 ends of internet cables in the switchboard, the second ends of which are in 4 sockets in different places in the apartment. In the same switchboard comes ISP cable. Now this ISP cable is connected to one of the cables leading into the apartment, the cable leads to my daughter’s room and there is a router connected to a socket and it gives out wi-fi.

I want to use all the outlets, since there are cables connected there, but I think how to organize it. I’ll just describe the options, and you can tell me which option is optimal.

Option as the most optimal is to put in the panel router without Wi-Fi and respectively connect to it provider cable and 4 cables that lead to the sockets. There are parallel questions, can I leave the router with Wi-Fi in my daughter’s room, will it not conflict with the one in the switchboard? Can I put a router with Wi-Fi in the panel (the old one is left) and connect all the cables to it? In this case it will not conflict with the router in my daughter’s room? Or the most normal option to put in the switchboard one router and from it to distribute the Internet and cable and Wi-Fi and more in the apartment no routers do not put in the apartment? And according to your advice (read your article) in the apartment to put repeaters. Which option is better?
Taking into account that I’m still thinking about how to put 220 in the switchboard, there is an alternative option using PoE. That is, all as in the first option, but to one of the outlets to connect PoE device and plug it into the outlet 220V and accordingly on the Internet wire to the panel will go power. What do you think of the second option and how effective is it? So far I have only ASUS RT-AC1200 router. What should I add to it for the optimal variant? Thank you in advance.

Answer

Good day. I understand your question, thank you for the detailed description.

Right away I want to understand the issue with power supply in the switchboard. PoE is usually powered only by access points, switches, web-cameras and other devices. I don’t even know if there are routers that can be powered by PoE. And even if there are, the power must come to the incoming port (WAN). From the ISP, I guess. Maybe I’m wrong. You need to google, look for information. But most likely it is so, and power supply via PoE is not an option.

Well, and here it all comes down to power supply. Whether you can provide power in the switchboard. The option with another router in the switchboard is probably the only one. If there was enough Wi-Fi coverage for the whole apartment from the router in the panel, that would be great. But as it is, I do not recommend to get in touch with these repeaters (if you can do without them). It is unlikely to make a stable network and get normal speed. Unless you put a wi-fi Mesh system. One module in the switchboard, and the second somewhere in the apartment.

With the installation of two routers will not be a problem. But in the switchboard it is also desirable to put a normal router, productive. On it you can disable Wi-Fi network. On the LAN, in any of the rooms you can install another router. Configure it exactly as a router (connect the cable to the WAN port).

If you will not plug anything into these outlets, it is better to leave everything as it is. Especially if your router is dual-band. In the 5 GHz range and on Wi-Fi the speed is not bad.

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