When my U-Verse was installed, rather than pull cables, the engineer used the existing Cat5e in my house (rental which was already wired - only one line between the garage and living room).
To enable ethernet around the house, he used 2 of the pairs in the single Cat5e for the home run and the other 2 to link back to the cabinet in my garage so I could distribute ethernet from there (there are existing runs to the Media Room and Office from this cabinet). This means that the ethernet back to the cabinet is only 100Mbit (as gigabit requires 4 pairs).
6 months later and I want to add my own router for improved WiFi, VPN compatibility and would also like to have gigabit ethernet throughout the house.
I have already purchased an Asus AC3200 router, which should improve my WiFi considerably, but as long as the RG is in the living room, I won't be able to have gigabit in there.
I'm planning on moving the RG into the cabinet in my garage (this way, I can separate the home run from the ethernet going to the living room, re-terminate it and have my gigabit link) and set it to passthrough mode to allow my Asus to act as the primary router.
I've tried to make diagrams to explain this better (attached - current and future)
My main areas of concern are the WAP and DVR not being directly connected to the RG, but the Asus has IGMPv3 routing capabilities. My switches have VLAN capability and IGMP snooping, so I'm hoping I won't see issues with multicast traffic flooding.
Does this look like it will work? I'm sure I'm missing something..
Thanks in advance!
↧