How's everything wired at home??
Just wondering how everybody has their stuff set up at home.
I live in a house (2 story with unfinished basement) ... Pre-wired in-wall by Builder: 5 CAT5 cables (Living Room / Master Bedroom / Bedroom 2 / Bedroom 3 / Garage) and 3 Coax cables (Living Room / Master Bedroom / Bedroom 2)
Modem Location: Basement by the Circuit Breaker Box ... Hitron AC Modem
Modem Connections: 4 ports connected - 1 CAT to living room wall plug / 1 CAT to Master Bedroom plug / 1 CAT to Bedroom 2 wall plug / 1 to Main Floor Laundry Room
Port Connections:
A) Basement - all wireless via the Dual Band AC Modem ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections
B) Main Floor Laundry Room - Rogers Tech wired through floor into the laundry room and out at the top of the door ...
- plugged in NetGear Router (for the purpose of the Rogers Smart Home Monitoring)
- plugged the MyQ Gateway device to the NetGear Router to control the garage door
C) Living Room - from the wall plug ran a CAT5 cable to the back of the Edimax Dual-band Router (provides wireless connection to the back of the house to the fence at the backyard ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections) ...
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to the Desktop Computer (drilled a couple holes in the floor to wire the CAT5 in the basement) ... for streaming direct
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to the Laptop in the living room ... faster direct connection to the internet
D) Second Floor Master Bedroom
- plugged in a CAT5 from the wall plug to my desktop computer
E) Second Floor Bedroom 2 - from the wall plug ran a CAT5 cable to the back of a second Edimax Dual-band Router (provides wireless connection to the front ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections) ...
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to my Epson printer ... on Home Network
- plugged in 2 other CAT5 from the router to the 2 2TB External TD ... on Home Network
F) Garage - plugged into the wall outlet a DLink DIR505 Wireless Extender ... extends the 2.4GHz to the end of the driveway
Sound Equipment:
- Sony 600W 5.1 Sound System ... rear satellite speakers on wall with speaker cables wired under the floor through the basement
- connected via HDMI to the TV
TV: Vizio 55" 4K Smart ... mounted on wall using the TygerClaw Wall Mount
Desktop Computer in Living Room:
- Asus Motherboard
- AMD 8-Core CPU with Stock CPU Fan
- 8GB DDR3 RAM
- 2x 2TB Seagate Hard Drives ...
- 2GB Asus Video Card with HDMI
- wireless keyboard and mouse
*** Connected via HDMI to the TV
Rogers Standard Definition Box (Scientific Atlantic Explorer 4290) ... the one and only SD Box that has unblocked HDMI port to connect to the TV to watch HD channels ... I pay the price of the SD Box but get the quality of the HD Box
Provider of Services: Rogers ... Ignite 100 (which I am getting average speeds of 180mpbs download) ... Digital Plus cable package
Some pics:
I live in a house (2 story with unfinished basement) ... Pre-wired in-wall by Builder: 5 CAT5 cables (Living Room / Master Bedroom / Bedroom 2 / Bedroom 3 / Garage) and 3 Coax cables (Living Room / Master Bedroom / Bedroom 2)
Modem Location: Basement by the Circuit Breaker Box ... Hitron AC Modem
Modem Connections: 4 ports connected - 1 CAT to living room wall plug / 1 CAT to Master Bedroom plug / 1 CAT to Bedroom 2 wall plug / 1 to Main Floor Laundry Room
Port Connections:
A) Basement - all wireless via the Dual Band AC Modem ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections
B) Main Floor Laundry Room - Rogers Tech wired through floor into the laundry room and out at the top of the door ...
- plugged in NetGear Router (for the purpose of the Rogers Smart Home Monitoring)
- plugged the MyQ Gateway device to the NetGear Router to control the garage door
C) Living Room - from the wall plug ran a CAT5 cable to the back of the Edimax Dual-band Router (provides wireless connection to the back of the house to the fence at the backyard ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections) ...
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to the Desktop Computer (drilled a couple holes in the floor to wire the CAT5 in the basement) ... for streaming direct
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to the Laptop in the living room ... faster direct connection to the internet
D) Second Floor Master Bedroom
- plugged in a CAT5 from the wall plug to my desktop computer
E) Second Floor Bedroom 2 - from the wall plug ran a CAT5 cable to the back of a second Edimax Dual-band Router (provides wireless connection to the front ... 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz connections) ...
- plugged in a CAT5 from the router to my Epson printer ... on Home Network
- plugged in 2 other CAT5 from the router to the 2 2TB External TD ... on Home Network
F) Garage - plugged into the wall outlet a DLink DIR505 Wireless Extender ... extends the 2.4GHz to the end of the driveway
Sound Equipment:
- Sony 600W 5.1 Sound System ... rear satellite speakers on wall with speaker cables wired under the floor through the basement
- connected via HDMI to the TV
TV: Vizio 55" 4K Smart ... mounted on wall using the TygerClaw Wall Mount
Desktop Computer in Living Room:
- Asus Motherboard
- AMD 8-Core CPU with Stock CPU Fan
- 8GB DDR3 RAM
- 2x 2TB Seagate Hard Drives ...
- 2GB Asus Video Card with HDMI
- wireless keyboard and mouse
*** Connected via HDMI to the TV
Rogers Standard Definition Box (Scientific Atlantic Explorer 4290) ... the one and only SD Box that has unblocked HDMI port to connect to the TV to watch HD channels ... I pay the price of the SD Box but get the quality of the HD Box
Provider of Services: Rogers ... Ignite 100 (which I am getting average speeds of 180mpbs download) ... Digital Plus cable package
Some pics:
16'x11' Living Room 11' Cathedral Ceiling. Hisense 65Q8G. Denon AVR-S740H 7.2 setup. Jamo Classic 10 280W Towers - FR+FL; Polk S35 - Center; Klipsch R51M - RR+RL; Klipsch R14M - Dolby FHR+FHL; Polk HTS10 Subwoofer x2. Unlocked Android Boxes from Taiwan x2