A Major Home Network Makeover

The Cat 5 cables inside the walls from the house's original renovation (not even Cat 5e) were far too slow, so I decided to drill holes and run my own wiring. I used 100 meters of AMP Cat 6 cable and 30 meters of fiber. I replaced the main router and moved both the router and NAS (I don't even have the energy to rant about using China Telecom's HS8145V ONT as the main router). I ran two Ethernet cables from the ONT to the main router for failover. The ONT's remaining ports connect to the Cat 5 cables in the walls for IPTV. Since the fiber would run along the bedroom wall covering, I chose fiber over Ethernet cable there because it was thinner and looked neater.

  Network topology:   ···········China Telecom ONT·········· ···································· ·············Main router············ ···                            ··· Upstairs  Bedroom  Study  NAS ··················(Fiber)·········   An A/B pair of gigabit single-mode, single-fiber media converters bought online:     The router's spare port and the B-side fiber media converter:     Speeds throughout the house after the upgrade:     Finally, thanks again to Tom for providing the Asus RT-AC87U: