Airport Extreme BEHIND a Network Switch

wwusa83

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Toms,

Problem: My internet comes into my home in my basement. I have one cable that I painstakingly ran above my basement ceiling through the floor and to the main floor of my house. Everything is fine except that my newer NAS is trapped in my tv cabinet and running too warm. I want to move it to the basement where the temperature is cooler.

Here is my currently setup in a linear fashion:

(Internet)--------ethernet cable-------------airport extreme on 1st floor-ROKU3-AppleTV-TP-LINK TL-SF1005D switch--Drobo5N--office computer.

Is it possible to run it like this:

(Internet)-------TP-LINK TL-SF1005D switch----Drobo----Airport extreme-----etc...etc....? Allowing me to leave the airport extreme on the 1st floor? What are my options other than running a second cable down in the basement? Range extender? Thank you for your input.

-wwusa83
 
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Short answer I suspect is no.

Now it greatly depends on what the thing you call internet is. If that is actual router then it will work "mostly" ignoring the issue of double NAT.

Now if what you have is a cable modem or some other form of modem that only provides a single IP address you can not just hook a switch to it. Only 1 device will be able to function. This is the key function of a router things like wireless are just extras.

Now you could of course run the cable from the modem upstairs to the router and then run a second cable from a lan port back down and hook that to the switch. There are other variation of that theme like using powerline to get back down or the nasty and not recommended solution of splitting pairs...
Sry I misread because you are using -- and - the same way in post. I will retype answer

So Internet > Airport Extreme > Switch
The roku/appletv connected to the airport, the drobo and office machine to the switch?
 
Short answer I suspect is no.

Now it greatly depends on what the thing you call internet is. If that is actual router then it will work "mostly" ignoring the issue of double NAT.

Now if what you have is a cable modem or some other form of modem that only provides a single IP address you can not just hook a switch to it. Only 1 device will be able to function. This is the key function of a router things like wireless are just extras.

Now you could of course run the cable from the modem upstairs to the router and then run a second cable from a lan port back down and hook that to the switch. There are other variation of that theme like using powerline to get back down or the nasty and not recommended solution of splitting pairs to make your cable function as 2 cables.

The simplest solution is likely to buy a inexpensive router and place it downstairs....you would want to run your airport device as AP rather than a router to just make things simpler.
 
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