Help on home network

[Eragaurd]

I have a home network to set up. The modem and TV is on the bottom floor, and the two kids-rooms are on the top floor. I want ethernet connectivity to the tv and both kids-rooms, plus an extra cable for a laptop in the livingroom (same room as the tv). I also want seperate wifi on the top floor. Please give me ideas on how to set it up.

[Electronics Wizardy]

do you have ethernet ran in your house?

 

what equipment do you have now? DO you have a isp? What type of connection?

[LIGISTX]

21 minutes ago, Eragaurd said:

I have a home network to set up. The modem and TV is on the bottom floor, and the two kids-rooms are on the top floor. I want ethernet connectivity to the tv and both kids-rooms, plus an extra cable for a laptop in the livingroom (same room as the tv). I also want seperate wifi on the top floor. Please give me ideas on how to set it up.

We would need A LOT more info about A LOT of things. As the poster above said, what gear do you currently have? Do you have wires ran already, if not, can you run them? Why do you want separate WiFi, what is the goal of having a separate WiFi network (if anything, the two will just be cluttering each other up, its not like the two networks will not both work on both floors and overlap.... unless you live in a personal 50 story high rise).

[Eragaurd]

I have a router and some ethernet cables, but nothing more. We don't want wifi on the first floor just on the second. And yes, we have an isp. it's fiber and the modem is already stuck onto the wall. The speed is 100 up and 100 down.

 

[danomicar]

35 minutes ago, Eragaurd said:

I have a home network to set up. The modem and TV is on the bottom floor, and the two kids-rooms are on the top floor. I want ethernet connectivity to the tv and both kids-rooms, plus an extra cable for a laptop in the livingroom (same room as the tv). I also want seperate wifi on the top floor. Please give me ideas on how to set it up.

I'm assuming you either have your house equipped with ethernet runs or you are willing to do the runs yourself.

 

All you would really need is to keep your router in the basement. You could use something like this in your living room and upstairs in order to split out the connection easily. This should get all of the devices connected to the internet. Assuming no other fancy network set up or super high bandwidth tasks are required. 

 

[Falcon1986]

@Eragaurd

 

Does fiber come straight into your home and terminate at an ONT? Are you sure the ISP device is a simple modem or a combination/gateway device?

 

A simple network layout...

Wireless AP (top floor)
|
|
Router <---- Modem
| |
| Laptop
|
TV

*Lines indicate Cat5e ethernet or better

 

[LIGISTX]

45 minutes ago, Eragaurd said:

I have a router and some ethernet cables, but nothing more. We don't want wifi on the first floor just on the second. And yes, we have an isp. it's fiber and the modem is already stuck onto the wall. The speed is 100 up and 100 down.

 

There really isn’t a way to not have Wifi on only one floor, and because of this, I would recommend putting the router near the modem on the first floor. Personally, I really like google (nest) WiFi, in my experience with it at 4 different houses, it just plain works. Simple, small, non intrusive, and it it just works.

 

You will need a switch with it though, so a ~20 dollar TPlink gigabit switch will do the job. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A121WN6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Dyn-EbDPHZ173
 

Router plugs into the switch, leaving 7 open ports to run to all your devices.

 

If you would rather the router be on the second floor, run a long cable up to the second floor from the modem, plug that into the router, and then run cables back down to the first floor where needed.

 

But again, there will be WiFi everywhere.... first floor, second floor, outside your house, in the sky above your house. I would personally just make sure the coverage is as good as possible.... if you have a very specific reason to not have WiFi on the first floor, like if the kids are downstairs you don’t want them on their phones or something, that can be managed via software and other means.