Hi Sifus,

Currently running a 2 storey office, am wondering if it is realistic to run both offices through 1 modem? Or need to apply 2 unifi lines.

Office 1 at 2nd floor, Office 2 at 3rd floor.
Ceiling height is approximately 2.3m

Kindly provide suggestions.

Thank you.

Run one network cable between the floors on the outside of the building or through the telephone riser?

This.
One router on each floor, connect a RJ45 cable between them.

make sure cat 6 above

find good router to handle dhcp..


1 unifi --> router

--> network switch (1st floor) --> cover all 1st floor device
--> network switch ( 2nd floor) --> cover all device in 2nd floor

desktop pc using manual ip

This post has been edited by sleyer: Apr 4 2024, 07:22 PM

Ultimately you will still need a LAN connection between 2F and 3F. Because the floor slab will make any inter-floor wifi useless.

For EACH floor will have its own wifi AP or router. Not sure how big your office area is..if big and many clients you can consider Cisco WAP solutions, if typical shoplot size any cheap huawei router also can.