CAT6 points in house

Bradley6969 · Mar 23, 2019

Looking at putting some CAT6 points around the house for various TVs, Xbox’s, Laptops, all I have at the minute is a Sky Hub (router) what would be best way to do this? Never done Data before am I looking for Patch panels, TP-link?
Just looking for best way thanks

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

SWD said:
Depends what make of CCTV you go for, Hikvision sell POE NVR's which I have, I also have a couple of 8 port Ubiquiti Tough Switches which also provide POE, as I am on Virgin I switched it to Modem Mode and then connected a Netgear R6400 to it so that handles the Wireless and DHCP side of things as well as firewalls etc etc and is then connected to the Tough Switches.

Ok thanks so if I go for some kind of POE NVR for the camera side then just get a normal switch for all the points in the house, unless I go for a POE switch then run everything from there and just link to a NVR which will do cameras?

Squid · Mar 24, 2019

Yep, but sometimes it's easier just to run the cameras from the NVR, how many cameras do you require and what is your budget?

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

SWD said:
Depends what make of CCTV you go for, Hikvision sell POE NVR's which I have, I also have a couple of 8 port Ubiquiti Tough Switches which also provide POE, as I am on Virgin I switched it to Modem Mode and then connected a Netgear R6400 to it so that handles the Wireless and DHCP side of things as well as firewalls etc etc and is then connected to the Tough Switches.

6-8 cameras and no budget I’ve seen you can get a switch that does non Poe and Poe, just looking for best way to do cameras and data points in house

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

But also it’s proberly easier all cams from NVR just not sure how to do data points in house

SparkyChick · Mar 24, 2019

Have a read of this:-

SparkyChick's Guide To IP Networking - https://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/resources/sparkychicks-guide-to-ip-networking.145/

It explains quite a bit

In terms of NVR/IP CCTV traffic. Connect the cameras directly to the NVR. This maximise available bandwidth and doesn't fill your home network with CCTV traffic.

Squid · Mar 24, 2019

Bradley6969 said:
But also it’s proberly easier all cams from NVR just not sure how to do data points in house

Usually cascade down from top to bottom, you can have the Sky unit anywhere set it to Modem Mode then run a cable to a switch say in the loft (run a spare cable as well) and have your patch panel there where you terminate all the cables from the rooms, if in a room say where the TV is you can always just add another switch say 1Gig as you won't be caning the data rates.

You need to work out what goes where and the size of the house as you may need a wireless repeater to boost the signal as to be honest most devices will be wireless, I just checked my stats and I have 31 devices connected, sad............

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Squid · Mar 24, 2019

Always run some spare cables.

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

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Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

Will that work?

Squid · Mar 24, 2019

Get an NVR that has network ports with POE makes life easier.

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

SWD said:
Get an NVR that has network ports with POE makes life easier.

Thanks is that wired ok?

Bradley6969 · Mar 24, 2019

Got told you can take NVR from POE switch? So took it from just normal switch

Squid · Mar 24, 2019

As Sparky Chick mentioned it reduces the loading on the rest of the network as you will have a constant stream of data to the NVR, let me do a diagram.