So while I'm doing some work for others on my other post, I think it's time to spruce up my own home setup as well. Currently I have:
Office - Comcast Xfinity and using a N66U with a tower computer & networked printer connected to the N66
Living Room - Ubiquity Touchswitch POE connected with CAT5e to the N66U and a Mac Mini, Synology NAS, PS4, and WiiU hardwire to the Toughswitch
Lately I haven't been happy with the range or the stability of the router as well as the LAN throughput could use some work but I'm guessing this is because it's doing dual duty as an AP and router/switch...?
So what I'm thinking is I'd replace the N66 with an R7000 (using Merlin or Tomato FW?) Use it as just an AP. I would then connect another switch in my office maybe this Linksys one or this Netgear one directly to my Comcast router (to use it for what it was intended for and just serve up DHCP etc...) and then connect the living room toughswitch to the new Linksys/Netgear switch- this way I would keep all local LAN traffic contained within the 2 switches (thus keeping all LAN overhead off the router and AP) to get the best LAN performance and using the R7000 to get the best wireless performance.
Does this sound like a good plan? Is there anything that doesn't make sense, wouldn't work, or should be changed? Also there shouldn't be a problem running a switch directly from another switch as long as somewhere in the upline there's a DHCP server (my cable router in this scenario) right?
Thanks for any guidance you can give with this!
Office - Comcast Xfinity and using a N66U with a tower computer & networked printer connected to the N66
Living Room - Ubiquity Touchswitch POE connected with CAT5e to the N66U and a Mac Mini, Synology NAS, PS4, and WiiU hardwire to the Toughswitch
Lately I haven't been happy with the range or the stability of the router as well as the LAN throughput could use some work but I'm guessing this is because it's doing dual duty as an AP and router/switch...?
So what I'm thinking is I'd replace the N66 with an R7000 (using Merlin or Tomato FW?) Use it as just an AP. I would then connect another switch in my office maybe this Linksys one or this Netgear one directly to my Comcast router (to use it for what it was intended for and just serve up DHCP etc...) and then connect the living room toughswitch to the new Linksys/Netgear switch- this way I would keep all local LAN traffic contained within the 2 switches (thus keeping all LAN overhead off the router and AP) to get the best LAN performance and using the R7000 to get the best wireless performance.
Does this sound like a good plan? Is there anything that doesn't make sense, wouldn't work, or should be changed? Also there shouldn't be a problem running a switch directly from another switch as long as somewhere in the upline there's a DHCP server (my cable router in this scenario) right?
Thanks for any guidance you can give with this!