I have moved to a new place and with that came a little bit of a challenge on network layout. All new condominiums and HDB apartments now come with a Fibre termination point next to the DB box and a patch panel with either CAT6 or CAT6a cables laid to most of the bedrooms and living room.
I was lucky to have 2 ports terminated in the living room where one could be used for IPTV and another one for Data from the ONT. However, this posed a problem for me as I had 2 WAN connections and didn’t want to keep my router in the DB box which wouldn’t cover the entire house of 5 bedrooms.
I decided to lay new network cables and provide additional points at the TV console area doubling it from 2 to 4 Keystones. 1 port was to connect to Port 1 and the other was to connect to Port 3 of the ONT to enable dual WAN setup through the patch panel at the DB. I wanted then to use the 3rd port to enable switched LAN connection to all the rooms by connecting the router’s LAN port to the wall keystone which in turn connects to an 8 port switch (TP-LINK TL-SG108E) which has Port Trunking and vLAN capabilities.
The rest of the ports at the patch panel were then wired to the 8 port switch which enabled every single bedroom with a wired LAN connection.
I also took the liberty to have a port dedicated for IP Phone at the Living room TV console area. With the revised layout, I could fully utilize my Dual WAN setup, IP Phone and wired LAN connection to all the rooms.