I just bought a house built in 1963; the phone and cable in the house is a do-it-youselfers nightmare. I’m upgrading everything and tearing out the old stuff. I plan to have cable/phone/CAT5 to every room – 2 in basement, 3 on 1st floor, 3 on 2nd floor. But, I need the freedom of wireless as well. I know approximately the layout, but need some technical advice. Here’s what I’m going to have:
– Cable (ComCast) into basement going to cable jacks in each room AND to a Cisco DPC 3000 cable modem.
– There will be a Leviton 12-port snap in data block in basement where all CAT5 runs will terminate.
– There will be a Cisco/Linksys WRT54G2 V1 wireless router either on the first or second floor plugged into one of the ethernet jacks for some ‘wireless only’ devices.
My HUGE question is: I know I need a switch or hub of some sort and it has to be by the data block – What should I be using and how do I configure everything to work from either a plugged or unplugged environment? What can and can’t be DHCP, etc.
Thank you everyone in advance for the help.