I'm moving some of my networking gear in a closet in a bedroom in my house. Here's the situation and current setup:
Cable modem, connected to router, which then connects on the ethernet ports to a Sonos bridge and a NAS device. Everything else in my house is wireless (ps3, google TV, laptop / desktop / tablet, printer).
I moved my office in my house recently as part of our rearranging the upstairs to prep a baby room, so my office went from a corner bedroom to a middle bedroom. The problem was that when I moved the office, that extra 15' or so that I moved the networking gear made the wifi signal too weak in my living room to actually connect any more, or at least it was incredibly spotty.
So right now, I have all that gear sitting on a nightstand in a bedroom in my house. I'd like to get it out of the way.
In order to do that, I need to do the following:
Questions I have:
For the coax cable, I was just going to get a splitter, but on an Amazon review someone mentioned if you are using a cable modem you should actually get a tap if one leg of the line is longer (which it will be). Is that true / what is the actual difference between a splitter and a tap?
Do I need to do anything special for intsalling Cat6 cable? To make it easier on myself I was going to get female - female adapters (vs. actually manually making the connection to the CAT6 outlet.). I'm assuming as long as I have one on each end, data can go bidirectional, in other words plugging the router into the wall with cat6, which then goes through the wall, to a nother cat6 cable connected to the computer should be fine?
Let's break out those real nerds now :beer:
Cable modem, connected to router, which then connects on the ethernet ports to a Sonos bridge and a NAS device. Everything else in my house is wireless (ps3, google TV, laptop / desktop / tablet, printer).
I moved my office in my house recently as part of our rearranging the upstairs to prep a baby room, so my office went from a corner bedroom to a middle bedroom. The problem was that when I moved the office, that extra 15' or so that I moved the networking gear made the wifi signal too weak in my living room to actually connect any more, or at least it was incredibly spotty.
So right now, I have all that gear sitting on a nightstand in a bedroom in my house. I'd like to get it out of the way.
In order to do that, I need to do the following:
- Pull the existing coax cable outlet from the wall in the bedroom, install a splitter, run a new coax into the attic and back down to a new gang box which I will install in the cloest
- Install a new power outlet into the closet as well so I can power the modem / router / etc.
- I have on ethernet jacks in my house. What i'd like to do while I'm in the walls is pull a new ethernet cable from the closet (new jack) into the office so can hard wire my desktop. That's primarily because I do a lot of file transfers on the NAS device and it is much, much quicker over Cat6 cable than it is presently over wifi.
Questions I have:
For the coax cable, I was just going to get a splitter, but on an Amazon review someone mentioned if you are using a cable modem you should actually get a tap if one leg of the line is longer (which it will be). Is that true / what is the actual difference between a splitter and a tap?
Do I need to do anything special for intsalling Cat6 cable? To make it easier on myself I was going to get female - female adapters (vs. actually manually making the connection to the CAT6 outlet.). I'm assuming as long as I have one on each end, data can go bidirectional, in other words plugging the router into the wall with cat6, which then goes through the wall, to a nother cat6 cable connected to the computer should be fine?
Let's break out those real nerds now :beer: