Loving that network tolpology

[mudmanc4]

So I get the call from a client yesterday, " hey, were moving in our new house in 30 days, I need you to get my network up"

 

WHATT ? lol Wait , you built a new house call me after the drywall is up carpets laid, just putting finishing touches on your new 3000++sqft home and say this.

 

Nothing pulled in the wall network wise. He says "hey it's all wireless now man" -- UHHG

 

You long timers here should know I'm not a huge fan of relying on wireless in this fashion , maybe that's it , I was born before cell phones turning on kitchen fawcets and living the mobile communications life. I can dig it , just enjoy the what I percieve as benefits of a solid core cat6-plenum running through my walls. All routed back to a switch next to your firewall appliance. Put those wireless repeaters wherever they're needed.

 

So I have Sonos, Apple Time capsule, iHome system, half dozen wireless HD TV's, and well pretty much anything else you can think of wireless that does - well anything when you're not standing in front of it. Including CCTV - DVR remote acess - ect ect ect -

 

And much less than 30 days to get the topology drawn up installed and configured. Freaking love a challenge like this. Should be rather simple , then again nothing truly is.

[TriRan]

The last house I was in We mainly used wifi I had repeaters all over the house but even still it was not as reliable as a wired network so when we were having our new house built I had them run cat6 throughout the entire house