Home network setup

Orrsome86 · November 1, 2025

Location Australia NSW

We just got NBN fiber to the premises installed which i was waiting for to determine where the NBN box would be coming into the house prior to rolling out further networking into the house. the below diagram hopefully conveys what i am trying to achieve and see if there are any issues before i buy the missing items which are the switch and CCTV cameras and NVR and two wireless access points. the modem router is from the ISP and has a mobile phone back up sim. hesitant to replace it but wiling to hear advantages / disadvantages (if any) for a third party one.

modem router and switch (switch 1 which i already own) is in the lounge room and has the items shown attached to it

i want to put another switch (switch 2 (with more ports and PoE capability) that i need to purchase) connected to the modem router in the study and connect the items indicated to it.

and send ethernet cables to Wireless access points in other parts of the house to boost the wifi from the modem/router as it does not reliably reach all parts of the house.

questions

Can i use the mode router as indicated sending two of the four ports to two different switches?

can i attach the wireless access points to the switch and not have different wifi networks? i.e. will it boost the wifi network from the modem/router over Ethernet to WAP which then broadcast it to the areas not reliably reached by the modem router. (i do not have an understanding on the difference between wireless access points and wifi boosters)

can i "daisy chain" switches? i.e. the ethernet cable that goes to a bedroom if there is more then one connection required in the bedroom can i attach another small 4port switch to the main switch in the study? or does it need to go back to the modem/router directly

can anyone see an issue with the layout shown? optimisations?

currently looking at the following missing gear

CCTV and NVR reolink RLK8-811B4-A Smart 4K PoE Camera System with 5X Optical Zoom & Spotlights with NVR

Switch TP-Link TL-SG1210MPE 10-Port Gigabit Fanless Easy Smart Switch with 8-Port PoE+ ( but may need more ports) would rather overkill ports now then run out later. does not need to be managed

ChrisLoudon · November 1, 2025

2 hours ago, Orrsome86 said:

questions

Hi buddy,

from the looks of things your setup is pretty much the same as mine.

I was in the fortunate position of doing a full house refurb a few years ago so I had the opportnity to wire every room with cat6 when all the walls were stripped back to stone.

The only thing(s) to consider would be the following:

1. Your ISPs fibre router may have a prefered ethernet port that needs connected to the small white box your telco company might have installed within your property. If its the same as here in the UK, the fibre comes from the pole / ground, is wired into a box external to your property then again to a small box within the house. I'm with Sky UK and their 4 port router requires (suggests that) port 4 i think is plumped into this small box leaving me 3 for other things. From memory, port 4 is for the fibe box, 3 is for a wifi AP and 2 is to a 12 port switch.

Daisy chaining switches is considdered a sub-optimal solution but for most domestic situations its usally fine. My setup is Fibre Box to Router (Port 4). Router Port 3 to 12 port Switch in the Livingroom. Livingroom switch feeds local devices there plus 6 x cat6 runs to other rooms in the house. Each 'other room' has its own smaller switch that feeds various devices local to that.

Try and wire from a central larger switch with seperate feeds going to and terminating at smaller switches in other rooms.

Network runs aren't like power cables where a 'circuit back' is required

The house has 3 Amazon Eero's for WiFi coverage plus a 4th in the shed for garden coverage.

With regards to CCTV stuff, I opted for a simple Eufy solution. I toyed with setting up a local NVR on my NAS but ended up down a rabbit hole. Yeh, I know they're probably selling images of me scratching my butt on the dark web but I couldn't give a hoot! lol.