Questions regarding my future home networking

[Doktor_KlingeL]

Hello everyone,

I have a few questions regarding on how I am planing to do the networking in my home.
For that I have made this diagram on how I as a noob would do it:

 

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My home has two floors so I assume I need two switches to have lan everywhere. How long can Lan cables be until they loose the signal?

What would you change, add or remove?
 

Thanks in advance!

[tkitch]

you can easily run 30M / 100' cables before any issues happen.  (Assuming decent cables)

 

That overall seems fairly reasonable, and sensible for your setup.    (For the RPi, see if you can get a PoE Hat for it, so you don't need an AC Adapter to run it)

[Lurick]

The distance limit is 100m (~300) feet depending on the speed and assuming no junk cables and you're not running it along high voltage power.

Cat5e is rated 2.5Gbps up to 100m (might be 5Gbps I can't recall off hand)

Cat6 is rated for 10Gbps up to 55m or 5Gbps up to 100m

Cat6a is rated for 10Gbps up to 100m

[Doktor_KlingeL]

12 hours ago, tkitch said:

you can easily run 30M / 100' cables before any issues happen.  (Assuming decent cables)

 

That overall seems fairly reasonable, and sensible for your setup.    (For the RPi, see if you can get a PoE Hat for it, so you don't need an AC Adapter to run it)

Thanks, I thought I went overboard with this setup. Would it be possible to make a portion of the network completely boxed off so it behaves like a seperate network? What I mean is for example I dont want to expose my cameras and security stuff to the internet. I heard and read about vlan but do I need special hardware to do that?

11 hours ago, Lurick said:

The distance limit is 100m (~300) feet depending on the speed and assuming no junk cables and you're not running it along high voltage power.

Cat5e is rated 2.5Gbps up to 100m (might be 5Gbps I can't recall off hand)

Cat6 is rated for 10Gbps up to 55m or 5Gbps up to 100m

Cat6a is rated for 10Gbps up to 100m

Thanks, that should be more than enough!

[tkitch]

There's 2 ways to segregate the network into different sections:

Physically or Virtually

 

VLANs - Virtual LANs - are the virtual way to do it, by splitting a switch into 2 distinct networks.

 

Physically here would (probably) be easier.  Just run a cable from your NVR to your PC Directly.  Don't have it touch the network.  (And a USB NIC would be more than enough to use this, if you don't have two NICs on your mobo.)