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Originally Posted by rsmurano
WAP (wireless access point) in the great room and a cat6 cable in the kitchen. Mine had to be terminated which I did. I setup a wired bridge mesh network with the cat6 cable above the cabinets so I don’t need a WAP. The xfinity modem/router is in a back bedroom with a cat6 cable so I go out from that bedroom into a switch in the garage network box, and there the cat6 connections go to all the rooms. Galaxy home solutions is lazy and didn’t terminate the cat6 cables for Ethernet, they punched down 2 pairs for phone (who uses a phone in each room nowadays?, plus galaxy wanted almost $900 to do the terminations. I bought the tools for $100 and did it myself.).
With my network I’m getting almost 800Mb wifi speeds throughout the house to the internet. Sure beats the 300-400Mb I was getting before I put in the mesh network
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When you terminate, you mean crimping the ethernet plugs onto the cable, correct? I have access to the crimping tool.
Somewhat confused by your comment about WAP in great room and then you said the wired bridge above the cabinets so you didn't need the WAP. The wired bridge has a built-in WAP, right?
I'm looking at Netgear products. Simple cable modem with one ethernet jack driving a switch in the garage feeding the rest of the cat6 cables. This allows TVs with a hard wired ethernet connections. Yes, use a netgear orbi tri band wifi router over the cabinets for wireless devices.