I currently have google wifi and it works fairly well not hardwired. However, we are finishing our basement and I want to put a 4th puck down there and to make sure I get a good connection, I would like to hardwire it to the main point. While I'm at it, I would also like to hardwire the other 2. I had cat6 run when we built the house from where the current points are to one spot in the basement. This is how I would like to connect this.

Modem
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Primary Wifi (upstairs)
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Switch - various items connected to this upstairs
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2nd Switch ---->2nd puck
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| |_________>3rd puck
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|___________>4th puck

I hope this makes sense....will it work?

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Posted by Got Heeem

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Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:22 pm to dlmast87

Looks fine to me, but I'm no expert.

This is how mine is set up and it works great.

Modem
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Primary Wifi (upstairs)
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Switch - various items connected to this upstairs
| | |
| | |
| | |---->2nd puck
| |
| |_________>3rd puck
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|___________>4th puck (I have a switch here with 5 or 6 other things hooked up to it)

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Posted by BeepNode

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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:59 pm to dlmast87

Yes that will work, especially if it's an unmanaged switch. Preferably you would have the pucks hanging off the same switch that is hanging off the main puck but it's all L2 and likely wont be noticeably slower.

Mine is like this:

{Modem}
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{pFsense firewlal}
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{Main puck}
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[8-port POE switch]
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{two IP cameras
TV
NAS
2nd puck in house
3rd puck in shop
A 4-port POE switch in my office}
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{IP Phone
Computer
Docking station}

Works like a champ.

Edit: forgot to add the firewall

This post was edited on 5/9/20 at 10:04 pm

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Posted by dlmast87

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Posted on 5/9/20 at 10:02 pm to BeepNode

awesome....I'll try it out. Thanks to both

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Posted by Brettesaurus Rex

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Posted on 5/12/20 at 6:47 am to dlmast87

Hard wiring the pucks to each other kind of defeats the purpose. You can still hardwire devices into each puck though?

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Posted by Broken Coyote

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Posted on 5/12/20 at 9:06 am to Brettesaurus Rex

No, hard wiring the pucks will improve the strength of your Wi-Fi signal throughout your space. My pucks in my current situation are not hardwired. I get good WiFi throughout, but there is a noticeable drop in WiFi strength when my devices are connected to my unwired pucks. 200-225 mb/s from main puck to 100-150 from the other two...running speed test. That’s plenty for most devices, but if you want max signal, wired is best.

ETA: yes, you can wire a device from a puck that is not wired. I have a TV set up like this.

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Posted by dlmast87

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Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:04 am to Broken Coyote

quote:
No, hard wiring the pucks will improve the strength of your Wi-Fi signal throughout your space.

This is how I understand it. Even if it doesn't really benefit, it's no extra work for me to hardwire them. All the wire has been run.

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Posted by Upperdecker

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Member since Nov 2014

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Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:28 am to dlmast87

You go primary > switch > switch, I’m not sure but seems like this could reduce your speeds, a lot of points to pass through. But I only have a single hardwire puck, so I guess theres more hoops to jump through to hardwire each since each one must connect to the primary and to the hardwire system

My setup:
Modem —————— primary - pucks connect WiFi
|————- switch (parallel to primary) - rest of house hardwired

So I have TVs hardwired, primary hard wired, everything else is either connected to a puck either by hardwire or wifi

What about setting up a second network for your basement? I’ve done that in the past, so that I could have a dedicated router for certain things like online gaming

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Posted by Got Heeem

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Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:17 am to Broken Coyote

quote:
No, hard wiring the pucks will improve the strength of your Wi-Fi signal throughout your space. My pucks in my current situation are not hardwired. I get good WiFi throughout, but there is a noticeable drop in WiFi strength when my devices are connected to my unwired pucks. 200-225 mb/s from main puck to 100-150 from the other two...running speed test. That’s plenty for most devices, but if you want max signal, wired is best.

ETA: yes, you can wire a device from a puck that is not wired. I have a TV set up like this.

All this. Yes.

I had most 4 of mine hard-wired and 1 not. I recently decided to hardwire the last one and it was a nice bump in that area.

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