See my name is Ivan, recently I got hold of an apartment, 115 m^2.
I designed my own electrical system and prewired all the rooms with CAT5e and CAT6...
I have one large living room, 3 smaller rooms, 1 huge hallway... My apartment is built mostly of reinforced concrete... The hallway is positioned in the middle (I will attach the photo in another post if necessary) All the UTP cables terminate at one point, middle of the hallway. There are 27 of them, some will be used for telephone (if I ever need that low tech crap) there are 12 CAT6 and 15 CAT5e, a patch panel is being installed next week... In an unrelated story there is a patch panel for COAX TV
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So now I have my wired backbone, but now comes a problem... What to use with my "uber" copper... I want a great home network, I will have at least 8 wired machines and at least 5 wireless clients, some wireless will be laptops with N, some g, a few mobile phones mostly G...
My idea was, buy a dumb unmanageable switch, 16 gigabit ports, buy one wireless access point, buy one VPN router so I can VPN to my setup from anywhere I want and something to give out DHCP to the rest of the network, the internet shall come by means of crappy DSL provided modem in bridge mode.
List of wired:
iMac, HTPC streamer, another HTPC streamer, homebuilt NAS, small server, maybe some arduino stuff but thats not really important, TV and maybe some more stuff but never more than 16 at a time.
List of wireless:
MacAir, Lenovo x200s, Asus w5f, a few blackberry phones and an android here and there...
So I kinda had an idea,
Backbone of my network the DHCP heart and soul, Cisco RV120W, it's perfect if you look at the specs, plus a device less! but bad reviews kinda got me bummed... So I kinda decided against it for now...
And am looking at Cisco RV042. Last resort is using my old wrt54GL with DDWRT as a router and QoS manager...
My switch would be a Dlink DGS-1100-16 16-port Gigabit EasySmart switch, actually with some basic web ui too! Great price
My WAP, I think I'd go with Dlink too on this one, DAP 2553.
So the thing is I live in Croatia, most of the cool stuff is either unavailable or expensive so much I'd rather shout 10111011
Please help me, I need to sort this out...
I designed my own electrical system and prewired all the rooms with CAT5e and CAT6...
I have one large living room, 3 smaller rooms, 1 huge hallway... My apartment is built mostly of reinforced concrete... The hallway is positioned in the middle (I will attach the photo in another post if necessary) All the UTP cables terminate at one point, middle of the hallway. There are 27 of them, some will be used for telephone (if I ever need that low tech crap) there are 12 CAT6 and 15 CAT5e, a patch panel is being installed next week... In an unrelated story there is a patch panel for COAX TV


So now I have my wired backbone, but now comes a problem... What to use with my "uber" copper... I want a great home network, I will have at least 8 wired machines and at least 5 wireless clients, some wireless will be laptops with N, some g, a few mobile phones mostly G...
My idea was, buy a dumb unmanageable switch, 16 gigabit ports, buy one wireless access point, buy one VPN router so I can VPN to my setup from anywhere I want and something to give out DHCP to the rest of the network, the internet shall come by means of crappy DSL provided modem in bridge mode.
List of wired:
iMac, HTPC streamer, another HTPC streamer, homebuilt NAS, small server, maybe some arduino stuff but thats not really important, TV and maybe some more stuff but never more than 16 at a time.
List of wireless:
MacAir, Lenovo x200s, Asus w5f, a few blackberry phones and an android here and there...
So I kinda had an idea,
Backbone of my network the DHCP heart and soul, Cisco RV120W, it's perfect if you look at the specs, plus a device less! but bad reviews kinda got me bummed... So I kinda decided against it for now...
And am looking at Cisco RV042. Last resort is using my old wrt54GL with DDWRT as a router and QoS manager...
My switch would be a Dlink DGS-1100-16 16-port Gigabit EasySmart switch, actually with some basic web ui too! Great price

My WAP, I think I'd go with Dlink too on this one, DAP 2553.
So the thing is I live in Croatia, most of the cool stuff is either unavailable or expensive so much I'd rather shout 10111011

Please help me, I need to sort this out...