Objectives:
- Complete wireless coverage within and around house and gardens
- Enable work-from-home video conferencing on the move anywhere in/around house
- Enable media devices anywhere (focus on living/master initially?)
- Strong wifi in/around shed to enable calls/stocktake/invoicing immediately when home
- Computer/tablet device dedicated for business in shed
- Security cameras on shed give exceptional view/coverage
Assumptions
- NBN conected to main house
- Shed could be connected earlier during build, but then would be the "master" location for NBN/router
- Wired connections in house preferred over wireless, but at a build budget
- Option for remote shed to serve as work/backup location
- Dedicated network segments or configuration for [trusted|IoT|guests|kids]
- Fully-offsite backup via cloud services (or remote family/business property)
Roles:
| House | Shed |
|---|---|
| - NBN/Internet - Router - Switch + PoE - WiFi - Cameras? - NAS/Server |
- Switch+PoE - Wifi - Cameras - Backup NAS/Server |
Comparison:
- High-spec consumer-grade single devices cost ~$600-800 and are not easily expandable (or iteratively upgradeable)
- Ubiquity UniFi devices have a larger range of integrated devices and capabilities, but at a +2x price
Minimal data wiring - barebones for initial wifi coverage across house with expectation that cameras/external wifi can be run through roof later.
- Run all data lines and 2+ power-points to a large cupboard in cool room such as office.
- Network cabinet, mounted low or high in office built-in cupboard
- CAT6
- Roof in kitchen (Wifi AP for kitchen/living/entertaining
- Ceiling in hallway (to serve kids bedrooms)
- Wall point low behind TV area (to serve wired and wireless tv/games/media devices)
- Wall of office (to serve office dedicate wifi point + wired devices)
- Wall of master bedroom (to serve dedicated AP in future)
- ~$460 OC200 network controller, R605 router + SG2210MP 8-port switch + PoE
- $160 EAP620 on roof of kitchen area
- $130 (optional) EAP225-WALL in the office or master bedroom.
- $130 (optional) EAP225-OUTDOOR in/on the shed to provide external coverage and shed coverage.
All of minimal wiring and devices, plus increased wiring for additional room points and external wifi/cameras
- CAT6
- Single/double runs to all wall points (behind TV, office, bedrooms etc)
- Run wall points to kids/spare bedrooms
- Spare lines to corners of house under eaves (for cameras and/or external wifi points)
- Wifi access points
- Wall points in office, master bedroom or behind living TV as needed
- Roof point in hallway for kids as needed
- SG2210MP 8-port switch + PoE in shed (to run multiple cameras or wifi points)
- Additional SG2218 16-port switch in office to interconnect wired (non-PoE) points (as needed)
- ~$200-400 UPS backup power supply
- ~$800+ NAS network storage
- Business-grade software-defined-network suite of products
- Exapandable over time
- Dedicated APs where they are needed to provide full internal/external signal
- Seamless handover between APs
- Mesh network for long-range external connectivity
- Dedicated network configuration for IoT, kids, guests
- Hardware or software application that manages & monitors other devices
- Software preferred if an internal always-on machine exists
- OC200
- $120
- Dedicated router enables segmentation of devices/networks, monitoring & control
- R605
- ~$90 (amazon)
- Fast interconnectivity, expandable as wired network grows
- PoE to support cameras/APs
- SG3210XHP-M2-v1
- 8xLAN+PoE @ 2.5G + 2xSFP @ 10G
- 240W PoE budget
- ~$630 (pcbyte)
- SG2210MP-v1
- 8xLAN @ 1G + 2xSFP @ 1G
- 150W PoE budget
- $230 (mwave)
- SG2218-v1
- 16xLAN @ 1G + 2xSFP @ 1G
- $210 (pcbyte au)
- Ceiling Mount
- Provides large area internal WiFi in living area or between rooms
- EAP620-HD-v1
- AX1800
- $160
- EAP660-HD-v1
- AX3600
- 2.5G uplink
- $300
- External
- Long-range external wifi
- EAP225-OUTDOOR-v1
- AC1200
- $130 (umart)
- Wall Mount
- Short-range room-level wifi
- EAP235-WALL-v1
- AC1200
- 3x LAN ports, including 1x PoE
- $130 (kogan, mwave)