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I'm in need of some advice to build a small office network with an ehternet storage unit attached to it.
As "the computers guy" I have been asked by some friends which run a small company in a large apartment ( circa 6 people, 6 macs, some printers, and a bunch of laptops ) to set up a decent wired and wireless network for them.
The situation is like this: all the WAN traffic is served via a HAG ( Home Access Gateway, according to their ISP ) which has three Eth ports and statically gives the three IPs to each of the ports. It is not configurable, and runs 10/100 on each port.
My friends need some decent LAN performance as they often move large files between the computers ( mostly very large pictures and some video ), so I have thought about buying them a decent 8-port Gigabit switch with VPN, since most of them need to work from home from time to time.
I think the Cisco ASA 5505 is just overkill for what they need to do ( would be fun to try one of these personally, though, I have never touched or configured a Cisco before ), so I need some advice on any 8-port decent Gigabit switch to which I can hook up a wireless router to serve as access point, and the company's HAG to serve as gateway. I am thinking to buy a Netgear GS608 or a D-Link DGS-2200.
The network would be like this:
HAG <---------> WiFi router/modem serving as Access Point and DHCP <-----> 8-port Switch.
Basically, a double NAT. Is that wrong? Seems a bit odd to me, but I cannot link the switch directly to the HAG, because I would have three IPs only and no subnet for me to configure.
In addition, I have to set up a small shared network drive, atound 1TB storage capacity for now. Any experiences you mind to share, has nayone ever used HP Media Smart in OS X networks?
Thanks in advance for reading this.
As "the computers guy" I have been asked by some friends which run a small company in a large apartment ( circa 6 people, 6 macs, some printers, and a bunch of laptops ) to set up a decent wired and wireless network for them.
The situation is like this: all the WAN traffic is served via a HAG ( Home Access Gateway, according to their ISP ) which has three Eth ports and statically gives the three IPs to each of the ports. It is not configurable, and runs 10/100 on each port.
My friends need some decent LAN performance as they often move large files between the computers ( mostly very large pictures and some video ), so I have thought about buying them a decent 8-port Gigabit switch with VPN, since most of them need to work from home from time to time.
I think the Cisco ASA 5505 is just overkill for what they need to do ( would be fun to try one of these personally, though, I have never touched or configured a Cisco before ), so I need some advice on any 8-port decent Gigabit switch to which I can hook up a wireless router to serve as access point, and the company's HAG to serve as gateway. I am thinking to buy a Netgear GS608 or a D-Link DGS-2200.
The network would be like this:
HAG <---------> WiFi router/modem serving as Access Point and DHCP <-----> 8-port Switch.
Basically, a double NAT. Is that wrong? Seems a bit odd to me, but I cannot link the switch directly to the HAG, because I would have three IPs only and no subnet for me to configure.
In addition, I have to set up a small shared network drive, atound 1TB storage capacity for now. Any experiences you mind to share, has nayone ever used HP Media Smart in OS X networks?
Thanks in advance for reading this.
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