Very new to networking and trying to modify my home network to work with several NAS units as well as a software firewall to replace my current router. I currently have a Netgear modem connected to a TP-Link Archer ax50 (wifi 6) router, which connects to my QNAP NAS through two gigabit ports (link aggregation) as well as the NVR for my security cameras. Most of my PCs and mobile devices are wireless (with wifi 6 on most).
I am planning on building another NAS out of an old computer with TrueNAS, and that has a 2.5Gbe port. It could also be easily expanded with a 10Gbe PCIe card if necessary. The NAS will have 6 total HDDs and possibly NVMEs for caching (once I figure out whether that will actually introduce a performance benefit), and the HDDs I'm planning to use have a max sustained transfer rate of around 260MBps (more with RAID), easily enough to saturate a gigabit network port.
My new router will have 4 i226-V 2.5Gbe ports. I will repurpose my wireless router as a wireless access point, but clearly, I need a switch to support all of the connections (two gigabit connections from QNAP, one for wireless AP, one for TrueNAS unit) hopefully with some room for upgradability. It is my understanding that if I buy a gigabit switch and connect the 2.5Gbe (or more if upgraded) TrueNAS unit to that, the gigabit switch will likely become the bottleneck for that connection. On the other hand, multi-gigabit port switches, especially managed ones, are expensive for a home network.
The TP-link router I have now is theoretically capable of wireless speeds in excess of 1Gbps, so assuming all network traffic needs to go through the router (is that the case? Or will the wireless AP somehow deal with purely wireless traffic by itself?) with the TP-link serving as a simple AP, a gigabit switch in between the AP router may create a bottleneck.
(Too many) questions: Is it viable to connect the TrueNAS unit directly to one of the 2.5Gbpe ports on the router, and a gigabit switch for the slower devices to another router port? One tutorial video with a Pfsense router suggested connecting the wireless AP directly to the gigabit switch (connected to the modem), but will that bottleneck the wireless traffic? Should I connect the AP directly to the last router port? Finally, that same video instructs to connect the router-turned-AP via its LAN port, which is a gigabit port. Will I then still have a bottleneck for wireless traffic (again, assuming wireless traffic needs to go through the router)?
Thanks for reading. A lot I don't know yet, so my apologies if any of my questions are obvious. Planning to learn.
I am planning on building another NAS out of an old computer with TrueNAS, and that has a 2.5Gbe port. It could also be easily expanded with a 10Gbe PCIe card if necessary. The NAS will have 6 total HDDs and possibly NVMEs for caching (once I figure out whether that will actually introduce a performance benefit), and the HDDs I'm planning to use have a max sustained transfer rate of around 260MBps (more with RAID), easily enough to saturate a gigabit network port.
My new router will have 4 i226-V 2.5Gbe ports. I will repurpose my wireless router as a wireless access point, but clearly, I need a switch to support all of the connections (two gigabit connections from QNAP, one for wireless AP, one for TrueNAS unit) hopefully with some room for upgradability. It is my understanding that if I buy a gigabit switch and connect the 2.5Gbe (or more if upgraded) TrueNAS unit to that, the gigabit switch will likely become the bottleneck for that connection. On the other hand, multi-gigabit port switches, especially managed ones, are expensive for a home network.
The TP-link router I have now is theoretically capable of wireless speeds in excess of 1Gbps, so assuming all network traffic needs to go through the router (is that the case? Or will the wireless AP somehow deal with purely wireless traffic by itself?) with the TP-link serving as a simple AP, a gigabit switch in between the AP router may create a bottleneck.
(Too many) questions: Is it viable to connect the TrueNAS unit directly to one of the 2.5Gbpe ports on the router, and a gigabit switch for the slower devices to another router port? One tutorial video with a Pfsense router suggested connecting the wireless AP directly to the gigabit switch (connected to the modem), but will that bottleneck the wireless traffic? Should I connect the AP directly to the last router port? Finally, that same video instructs to connect the router-turned-AP via its LAN port, which is a gigabit port. Will I then still have a bottleneck for wireless traffic (again, assuming wireless traffic needs to go through the router)?
Thanks for reading. A lot I don't know yet, so my apologies if any of my questions are obvious. Planning to learn.