ozak, not sure what u mean by "dont need anymore layout the lan cable". Can u share further? Thanks

Yes, this is correct if you don't have many connection maybe good for 2 to 4 equipments if you want to achieve high speed. Wireless and Ethernet over Power/socket work in sharing a single band. The more equipments in wireless or Power plug the slower it will get.

It's not always guaranteed that you'll have the max wireless speed, and is all depend on the strength of signal.

The more equipments / computers using the network increases, the data transfer rate to each will be reduce.

If you plan to run cctv over IP, IPTV, Wireless, surfing and sharing to many device than you need to get more AP transmitter for better stability.

highly doubt i need ap for the said items above as they are considered cables and accessories only. not network equipment.

Sorry guys for the late reply.

Below is my network rack from outside. Brand Grow, 9U, that costs me RM 535.30 (including a fan, a rack as you can see from inside).

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Inside, I'm using:
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1. Unmanaged Network Switch (TP-LINK 24P 1Gbps): RM 399.00
2. CAT6 Patch Panel, NuroMicron: RM 402.27
(the rest is not necessary as you can see I have Belkin extension and a simple NAS. You can also noticed the TM modem)

All over my house, I have 16 ports in total (6x2 ports and 4x1 port)

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My wireman charge me RM 4680.00 for the CAT6 wiring, including the piping, hacking and the wall plate, including the wiring up to the patch panel, as well as telephone line (from outside of my house to the rack, I don't think you can see it from the image).

My wireman used to do the LAN wiring. If you are hiring electrical wireman, make sure find someone for the patch panel connection. Even my wireman, they thought that the cable should be plugged in at the front of the patch panel. I asked them to redo; the cable should be terminated at the back of the panel. We as user can reconfigure simply by connecting a patch cable (CAT5e/CAT6 etc. for ethernet networking or CAT3 for telephone) to our switch or other devices. As you can see, some of ports at the patch panel I connect with RJ11 cables. That cables are connected to RJ11 splitter that connected to the phone port at the modem (I placed my router on top of the rack). This way I can connect telephones at the pre-configured ports. FYI, I hire different wireman for my 3-phase electrical wiring (as mentioned in my previous post). My point is, I want wireman that has experience in LAN wiring.

Please note that during the planning stage, I have tested Dintek brand CAT6 cable but the performance is similar to any other CAT6 cable. You need to make sure all the portion of the cable that is twisted remain twisted, not overly bent and insist that the cable must be inside of conduit. Do not simply hack your wall, lay the cable and then cover by cement. This will shorten your cable's life. Dintek is expensive that is not necessary.

My budget is just for CAT6 and CAT6a during the time is very expensive, not to mention CAT7 and I don't mind the unpopular brand for cables, patch panel (NuroMicron), wall plate (AMPNetconnect). For switch, right now unmanaged is enough for me. Just make sure it is gigabit.

Yup, for home. I DIY'ed my gigabit home networking since last 3 houses that I rented.

It is serious stuff. I don't like having cables at the edge of my living room connecting router to my streaming boxes in my other room, or Unifi cable from ceiling down to side of TV to connect to the modem. If in Malaysia we have houses with soft boards that easily hacked like in US, I'd DIY myself like them. And I also don't like to depends on WiFi (even AC/5.0 GHz) for my devices that capable of ethernet connectivity.

How's the average temperature, planning to setup CCTV recorded in store room.

So happy to see there are other people out there who decided to wire their houses. When I wired my house, my wife gave me an earful.

Now after 6 years, enjoying internet connectivity throughout the house with ease and no wifi instability even with only Cat5.

Nice for DIY level.  Do you mind sharing how do you route the cables to your AV and PC? A picture maybe? Maybe someone browsing for "Home Renovations and Interior Design" can benefit?

I am planning to network my new home which is currently still under construction. I contacted the electrical sub contractor and they are quoting me RM200 per cable (doesn't matter long or short) for Cat6. Cable brand is Legrand (haven't heard of it). I'm thinking if I were to do it myself after the key submission would it be cheaper?

I'm expected to have 10 Cat6 points.

ozak, i thought Maxis broadband uses private IP.  How do you do ddns? remote from outside?

What i read in the forum is MAXIS uses a private 10.x in their WAN IP.  So ddns would not work if like this.

If your synology works in ddns it means your MAXIS uses a Public WAN IP?  How long have you been using Maxis broadband?

Easy to check, open command prompt and do a nslookup your ddns FQDN.  If its able to resolve then it means you are on a public IP.

Just visit your router web portal (typically 192.168.1.254) and see what is the IP listed for IPV4 IP.
If its 10.xxx its private IP >> Call maxis req for public IP
If its 58.xxx its all good

Generally if that IP matches with the google search for "what is my IP" then its likely to be public IP; also if you can browse Lazada smoothly its likely to be public IP
If you encounter high failure rate loading lazada pages then you'd probably be on private IP