Wireless or ethernet?

I have 11 rooms on the same floor that need internet access (1 pc per room).

You would go wired or go wireless?

>drilling, cabling, switching
>vs
>wifi with signal loss

Wired.

Its SUCH a bitch to set up especially in your scenario but ultimately it will be a more reliable connection.

I'm assuming this is some sort of business? You're going to want wired, no debate.

Whats the area you have to cover? I would look at using 2-3 UniFi AP LR's in mesh configuration, or you could even run ethernet just for these 2/3.

Replace UniFi with your chosen WAP, from personal exp, UniFi kit often breaks but is top notch.


Where I work i'm guessing we have 100 or so of them, every 6mth or so one dies. Your mileage may vary.

Any suggestions for switch models?

Yeah. I'm trying to avoid it but you fuckers keep pointing out the obvious truth.

>Whats the area you have to cover?
about 100 square feet

Depending on how hard it is to pull cable I'd try Homeplugs (ethernet over power line).

unfortunately you need to go wired. Unless you want the office to be improvised.

Don't have any experience with that. What is the maximum bandwidth in real life?

I assumed it was a hostel or something. I would go with full wired.


However 2-3 UniFi's should have no problems covering that, especially with the small amount of users

it's still much worse than wired

better than wifi?

depends on the distance from the wifi router, if you move away it slowly starts to win over

I would avoid these,


To get anything decent with these you need two things,

1) Really good electrical cabling, no Antenna style setup, you need a ring.

2) Really good power over ethernet adapters, lots advertise as 1gbp but the NiC is only 100mbs.


The best pair of ethernet over power adapters I've seen managed 200mb/s flat out and i've used a lot, turns out rich c level folks won't spent $2k on getting their house wired but will suffer with a WAP connected to a ethernet over power adapter....


AND they break often, often need resetting.


I hate, HATE dealing with them.

Also, have fun trying to use more than two.

LOL

Wireless is ethernet dumbass.

you need a wifi cable for that :^)

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>>drilling, cabling, switching
always go with cable unless you are poor

>Wireless is ethernet
you might be suffering sleep deprivation user, go to bed

>11 rooms
>wired
>current year

OP here. Not poor, just lazy.

Depends on the scenario.
Home? Wired wherever the main streaming devices are, basic wireless for anything else.

Office? Wireless with repeaters every 3-4 rooms.

unless there are actual problems with the installation - it's so worth it once you're done. with wired, there will never be any problems once it is installed

someone uses the microwave and you lose your connection

wired is superior in every way, you only use wireless if you don't care who it's for

>Office? Wireless
no

This is an office.

Fuck you everybody. I need to drill.

look if you are not going to be using it then just do wireless. if it is your family then start cabling

>an office.
doing what? if it is just email yeah wireless who cares

Yeah you sure need gigabit to download the occasional png or spreadsheet.

Wireless is more than reliable enough for 90% of uses. Only scenario an office would NEED wired is if they're a video production or some other large transfer requiring field.

OP here. Can you suggest a good brand for a switch? Good as in good from experience.

>I need to drill.
using a drill is fun OP wtf

there are so few times when IT nerds get to use powertools

>has clearly never managed an office

all our employees use laptops and we still have wired access at every desk. if this is a rinky dink operation (like some insurance firm) sure, wireless because most of the employees are just shopping anyways. but if you're doing more than $100k of business anally, you need wired

>$100k of business anally
brutal

I'm in agreement with you actually.
I absolutely believe wired is superior, and is the best you can get for any scenario, office or not.

However, OP hardly sounds like he's running a multi-national firm, so something basic, convenient, and understandable to most normies seems like the clear answer.

Ubiquiti's stuff isn't awful and can be had for pretty cheap relative to Cisco or Adtran, but if you don't need any fancy features like VLANs and just want to go from a router to a switch, you can just grab a 16 port TP-LINK and call it a day. Just don't expect every connected PC to be able to shovel a gigabit over the LAN simultaneously.

The trick to making ethernet drops easy is to use existing holes in the header for outlets. That way there's no figuring out which part of the wall you need to put the hole in when you drop it. Just add another box in the wall for low voltage stuff a few inches below or above the outlet to keep it up to code.

If the wire isn't stapled to the stud it's even easier because you can use the wire as a pull string. Kill the power and unscrew the outlet. tie a string to it and go up in the attic. Pull the wire up in the attic and tape the ethernet to the end of it. Go back down stairs and pull the string. reattach the recepticle and wire the ethernet jack.

>Just don't expect every connected PC to be able to shovel a gigabit over the LAN simultaneously.

If i'm going to drill walls, pass cables and make ethernet clips, i will sure as hell expect GIGABIT ETHERNET!

Then be ready to run multiple lines to each room, instead of just 1 line attached to a gigabit switch that each desk connects to. Or invest in *good* 10GbE hardware, since the (relatively) cheap ones can't hit line rate.

do you like gayman?

What would be ideal for a home setup, in regards to an access point and a router? Because I'm completely lost

ubiquiti or mikrotik