Reading posts here..mostly stuck with Single Lan point to living hall with no return line to loop back to DB for further distribution.
There is one solution that you dont need to lay extra cable yet able to loop back for further distribution without much suffer on bandwidth ( up to 1 GB Full duplex).
By using 2 managed switch, you can achieve this goal .
1. ONT -> Managed Switch 1(MS1) => Network truck with single LAN cable to link to Managed Switch 2 => Living Hall Router & its LAN Port loop back to MS2 switch to be routed back to MS1 LAN Port for other rooms distributions.
MS1 Setup
- 1 Trunk Port ( ONT -> MS1-Trunk Port -> MS2 -Trunk Port-> Router WAN Port
- VLan grouping based on ISP vlan settings
-Define Vlan Group for Other rooms distribution, Vlan-InterLAN
MS2-Setup
-Dedicted TrunkPort to route traffic from MS1 and To MS1
-Vlan group for Router WAN Port & Trunk
-Vlan group ports for Router's LANPORT to MS1 Lan Ports- Vlan -InterLAN
Since the only physical LAN has full duplex bandwidth of 1GBps Up and 1 GBps Down.
Since the internet application mostly download more than upload. With assumption of 9:1 Ratio of Download /Upload (Mainly for signal acknowledgement) .
You will have 900Mbps for download bandwidth and 100 Mbps for uplink acknowledgement.
Single Trunk have 2 lanes of Download link(DL) and 2 lanes of UpLink (UL)
Download Link Signal
1.Internet ->ONT ->Trunk MS1 (Trunk of 2 lanes download) -> MS2 ( 2 Lanes of receiving ) to Router WAN
2. LAN Ports from MS1 Network will use the same DL lanes to transfer signal back to Router's Lan Port.
*This uplink signal ration should be around 10% of Internet incoming traffic
Uplink Path
1) Wan Out from Router to ONT to Internet
10% of Downlink traffic
2) Network traffic From Router's LAN Port ( MS2 ) to MS1-LAN download traffics
Since this is internet download, you still have 90% bandwidth or 900 Mbps.
I have ordered 2 managed Switch from Amazon with trunk capability to experiment this concept. I should be able to share more after getting the switches from Amazon. $120 project...
This concept is not new, it is documented by many network switch makers.
One of the more easy to understand concept is found at Mikrotek wiki page.
Update(31 Dec 2017)
Adding validated Setup Diagram
There is one solution that you dont need to lay extra cable yet able to loop back for further distribution without much suffer on bandwidth ( up to 1 GB Full duplex).
By using 2 managed switch, you can achieve this goal .
1. ONT -> Managed Switch 1(MS1) => Network truck with single LAN cable to link to Managed Switch 2 => Living Hall Router & its LAN Port loop back to MS2 switch to be routed back to MS1 LAN Port for other rooms distributions.
MS1 Setup
- 1 Trunk Port ( ONT -> MS1-Trunk Port -> MS2 -Trunk Port-> Router WAN Port
- VLan grouping based on ISP vlan settings
-Define Vlan Group for Other rooms distribution, Vlan-InterLAN
MS2-Setup
-Dedicted TrunkPort to route traffic from MS1 and To MS1
-Vlan group for Router WAN Port & Trunk
-Vlan group ports for Router's LANPORT to MS1 Lan Ports- Vlan -InterLAN
Since the only physical LAN has full duplex bandwidth of 1GBps Up and 1 GBps Down.
Since the internet application mostly download more than upload. With assumption of 9:1 Ratio of Download /Upload (Mainly for signal acknowledgement) .
You will have 900Mbps for download bandwidth and 100 Mbps for uplink acknowledgement.
Single Trunk have 2 lanes of Download link(DL) and 2 lanes of UpLink (UL)
Download Link Signal
1.Internet ->ONT ->Trunk MS1 (Trunk of 2 lanes download) -> MS2 ( 2 Lanes of receiving ) to Router WAN
2. LAN Ports from MS1 Network will use the same DL lanes to transfer signal back to Router's Lan Port.
*This uplink signal ration should be around 10% of Internet incoming traffic
Uplink Path
1) Wan Out from Router to ONT to Internet
10% of Downlink traffic
2) Network traffic From Router's LAN Port ( MS2 ) to MS1-LAN download traffics
Since this is internet download, you still have 90% bandwidth or 900 Mbps.
I have ordered 2 managed Switch from Amazon with trunk capability to experiment this concept. I should be able to share more after getting the switches from Amazon. $120 project...
This concept is not new, it is documented by many network switch makers.
One of the more easy to understand concept is found at Mikrotek wiki page.
Update(31 Dec 2017)
Adding validated Setup Diagram
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