Network Technology 2016 for a Single-Family House

Either you installed and mounted it yourself or your electrician was really cheap. Two sockets with one cable in between (HAR hallway upstairs) cost us €170. For 9 sockets + patch panel it should be nearly €900. I decided against it.

I laid and connected the cables myself, the electrician created the sockets and slots.

100m CAT7 nowadays costs €50, the installation conduit the same. Additionally, you need 1x double socket at €7.49 including cover.

Drilling the socket and milling the slots depends on the electrician but I estimate no more than €30 on average. So (if we assume about 10m cable per socket) a double socket costs us €52.49...

That would put you at ~€630 for 24 sockets (a common patch panel and a switch)

So where exactly is the burden and why shouldn't one do it?

And having webcams around the house now seems unusual to me. We only have a motion detector at the back.

Video surveillance is absolutely no longer new...

By the way, if the NAS is used regularly, cascading switches already have significant speed disadvantages.

That may be true... but so far I haven't noticed any problems... despite continuous streaming of 5 cameras in 720P on one switch and NAS and the rest on the other, with the NAS serving as storage for the video streams. Watching a 1080P movie simultaneously from the NAS on the TV is possible without any problems...

4K is overrated... great in the cinema, but on the home projector or TV completely pointless... (says someone who has a 4K TV at home)

There are already 20 ports and the 24-port switch is almost fully occupied.

Just for the webcams that I will install around the house, I need 6 network sockets alone...

Thanks, I also forgot two more, so now 22 out of 24 ports are occupied. I hope I haven't forgotten any more.

Anticipating future technologies is one thing, but I also see the cost for such a "basic framework" of a network as relatively low.

It also makes no sense in IT to buy functions "as a reserve." Product life cycles are getting shorter, not longer. So anyone who thinks that someday, maybe because of the kids, they might need 48 ports, or VLANs, or that cascading could become a bottleneck, should implement this when the time comes and not plan for eventualities years in advance. Pure waste of money. Incidentally, devices that generate heavy traffic can of course be easily placed on the same switch, and devices with lower bandwidth (router, webcams, coffee machine, and toaster, ...) on a possible second switch. Then the bottleneck caused by cascading does not matter. NAS and PC belong on the same switch, and that's it.

I have been dealing with the topic of network updates lately.

Should IP-TV or Entertain be used? If yes, then the switch should definitely support IGMPv3. That way, you can't avoid a Smart Managed switch. Personally, I would split the whole thing onto 2 switches. One with and one without PoE. But everyone has to decide that for themselves!

I haven't made a purchase yet. My current favorite is from Zyxel from the GS1900 or GS1920 series.

Well, why crazy? Cables and outlets practically cost nothing, so why not just throw a cable into every corner... and at every really necessary place at least 2 outlets?

One could discuss what is "necessary." You probably meant 2 double outlets at those places? I don't need IT equipment at home like in an open-plan office...

Reading some comments, you really want to recommend going out into nature again and not living on the internet with your 4826 Facebook "friends."

And I simply cannot and do not want to see that.. the armadas of local switches lying behind the TV and gathering dust over time... not acceptable to me at all. If you are building new - at least in my opinion - you should avoid such solutions if possible.

Just for the webcams that I will install around the house, I will need already 6 network sockets alone...


Well, today you have 50 MBit - what about tomorrow?
Broadband expansion will continue. The first larger core communities are already laying fiber directly into houses here. Not much time will pass until the surrounding villages also enjoy this...

Better safe than sorry, and with a gigabit network you are already very well equipped for the future.

However, just because it is available, I can ask myself, do I really need it?