House WiFi system help.

[Erni]

Longmont is bringing fiber optic internet to the house, and the LAN needs updating.

I would like to upgrade the router, add a good AP, and add some wired connections in the ground floor. Max of 5 users streaming (netflix or youtube), need an easy to config guest lan that only sees out and is isolated from the rest.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to do a good system? I'd like to keep costs at prosumer or below, ease of configuration is a plus.

Thank you.

[CS1983]

Will your main usage be on the wired connections or via the wifi?

Your guest LAN will essentially be a VLAN separate from the rest.

Your ISP might have recommended hardware in case they have any specific requirements.

[Erni]

Wifi for the general streaming and internet access. Second floor roku will be streaming via wifi, as there are no wires and would be a nightmare to wire up. Kids rooms will stream via wifi as not wired. First floor can be wired via basement. Main TV, kitchen pc and gaming boxes will go wired. I think a NAS for home music and movies will be added too in the future.

[Irving]

I'm remodeling my house and have considered running hard lines through out the house, but am reluctant to do so because I'm not sure if the technology will stick around. Is hard wiring something that people look for when buying homes?

[BigBear]

I'm remodeling my house and have considered running hard lines through out the house, but am reluctant to do so because I'm not sure if the technology will stick around. Is hard wiring something that people look for when buying homes?

FWIW, yes. In certain rooms (a study/gameroom/bedroom/etc) I know a lot of people (and I am one) that do look for standard electrical plug ins as well as cable/ether/etc plugs.

[fairrpe86]

I am a friend who is a high level IT manager at one of the state universities uses https://routerboard.com/ in his own home for routers. He gives them great reviews, I have yet to use their hardware but they seem like a good product.

I also forgot to mention their products have a built in firewall within the router that has a ton of functionality and works very well.

[CS1983]

I'm remodeling my house and have considered running hard lines through out the house, but am reluctant to do so because I'm not sure if the technology will stick around. Is hard wiring something that people look for when buying homes?

I would. I don't like wifi unless I have to have wifi.

Copper has been around for years. Even when Fiber directly to a house is a thing (most "fiber" is just a neighborhood, not direct to house -- there are exceptions but not yet here (Lincoln, NE for example is rolling this out via ALLO), I doubt people will be installing fiber IN their house (and really, I'd expect that to be on the owner when and if they get fiber and want fiber all around).

Here's the speeds:

Cat5e:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 45 meters

Cat6:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 55 meters

Cat6a:
Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters
10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters

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If I was looking at a house and it had Ethernet ports in each room, that would be a huge plus to me.

[Irving]

Thanks.

[Wulf202]

Read up on how to run cat cable

There's some dos and don'ts to installing. If you want hands on I'll be doing low voltage within the month on a small 3 bedroom rg6 and cat5e with a main panel the same for home runs

[ACE2GOOD]

Make sure whatever you get is approved by the company you are getting internet from. If you end up having any speed issues or disconnects what so ever during your install or having issues later on they will blame your equipment and not help you at all. I had this problem with Comcast and had to get one on their "approved" list to get them to fix my speeds.