Originally Posted by rsmurano
Thanks. Thanks for your replies cybersprings and jrref. Isn’t it very odd that people try to put other people down or squash any info that could help many people in TV?
If you go thru the forums the past few years, you see a common theme: people have slow networks, networks that can’t see devices in your lanai, in your garage, or outside where your grill is.
For some viewers here that try to squash helpful info, did I mention anything about external network speeds? No I did not. What I wrote will create an internal network inside your home to be able to handle your current network needs (whatever they are) and for the near future. If you knew about MoCa splitters or devices, the current versions support 2.5Gb which means when you setup a MoCa network, the accumulated bandwidth passing thru this 1 device can handle up to 2.5Gb.
Mesh networks can be a great way to implement an internal network, but only if you follow certain standards/guidelines. Old mesh networks have many limitations compared to the newer releases. For example, my mesh network provides wifi6e capabilities which means better coverage, faster speeds, and the most important to me was using 6e as the dedicated backhaul from mesh to mesh device.
Let me explain things that hurt wifi network speeds and coverages. If your wifi devices are behind walls, floors, ceilings, your performance will suffer, same goes for your coverage. When I 1st created my network in our house here, I didn’t get a good signal outside where my grill is not in my garage.
So here’s what I did in my house and could be a blueprint for anybody to create their own network too. I have stated this in prior network threads for the last couple of years but I can repeat it here.
Galaxy wires new homes using cat5/6 cabling for landline phones in each of the bedrooms. So I bought the tools and testers to rewire these connections for Ethernet, this required each room with the 4-wire outlets to be re-wired for the 8-wire rg45 connectors, same goes for the wires in the garage network panel and the cat5/6 wire in the kitchen above the cabinets was wired with rg45. I then placed my network switch in the garage network panel to allow all Ethernet cables to be connected.
So I have the 1200Mb xfinity network to the outside and I had xfinity put their router/modem where it would be beneficial to me for wired devices, I use my own mesh network so I didn’t care about the xfinity router for wifi coverage. I modified the xfinity router configuration to my criteria from doing networks for work and for friends for decades.
I have the latest version of mesh networks that provide wifi6e capability. The biggest boost for this mesh network to work at its peak was to use a wired connection to the primary mesh device and then use the 6e backhaul to the other mesh devices. Most people will use wifi to setup multiple routers (wireless bridge mode) and the speed coming into the 2nd/3rd routers is already compromised. I’m getting ready to put a 3rd mesh device in and I will be using a MoCa connection so I will be getting 1G speed to this remote mesh device, then it will broadcast wifi from that point which will strengthen the connections and speeds.
At each location where the mesh devices are located, I hook up a 1G switch so all my internet devices are connects by wire which gives much better throughput with very low latency. It’s not all about speed, it’s about the quality of the connections/coverage and the latency.
So why do all this, easy to define. My whole house is automated: garage doors, cameras, all external door locks, lights, streaming multiple TV’s and hi res audio, doorbell/camera, backup all computers/phones/tablets to a central server, my thermostat, refrigerator, stove/oven, roomba vacuum, and the outside grill are all connected, and more. I can adjust the temperature on the inside oven and the outside grill or can tell what temperature the food is at anywhere in the world. I stream music from my cars to my home server so I can play hundreds of thousands songs that I like in any order with better quality than Sirius/Xm, and I save $20+ each months.
No ISP (spectrum, xfinity for example), no geek squad, no computer store down the street will be able to do this type of work, it’s only people that can think outside of the box and have some networking experience behind them that could put something like this together, so my goal was to kickstart your creation of a robust internal network.
This is just the basics too, you do need to know what a wan/lan/DMZ/vlan is, 2.4/5ghz networks (most devices to automate your home operate on the 2.4ghz network btw), bridged networks, mesh networks, 802.11a/b/g/ac/ax, and the new wifi6e technology.
Instead of trying to squash helpful info that myself and the few others tried to do in this post, try to embrace it. Doing a mesh, wired, or MoCa network that provides great throughout with very low latency, doesn’t cost much more than a network that will provide you poor coverage, poor speeds, and no room to grow in the future.
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