Would This Work?

[Alexceptional]

http://a.imageshack.us/img41/7697/lanl.png (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/lanl.png/)

^^ Our planned network for our student flat in september.

Basically, the modem is in one room at one end of the flat. The guy who has the room wants to wire in his Xbox 360 as it has no wireless, however it would be ideal for the router to be in the centre of the flat for good wireless coverage. So we came up with this plan; having the n router in access point in the hall connected by a lead to a seperate router (my trusty linksys dd-wrt box) in his room with the wireless turned off.

As the internet is 50Mb/s we thought it would be wise to go for wireless 'n' so the wifi wouldn't limit the speed. As 'n' is 300Mb/s we thought it would be better to plug the NAS directly into the AP for maximum bandwidth over wireless as the linksys router doesn't have gigabit ethernet.

My question is would the setup work? Would the NAS and the print server need to be wired directly into the router instead for it to work?

[Jackster]

Should be more than fine :)

[Sniperdude]

http://a.imageshack.us/img41/7697/lanl.png (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/lanl.png/)

^^ Our planned network for our student flat in september.

Basically, the modem is in one room at one end of the flat. The guy who has the room wants to wire in his Xbox 360 as it has no wireless, however it would be ideal for the router to be in the centre of the flat for good wireless coverage. So we came up with this plan; having the n router in access point in the hall connected by a lead to a seperate router (my trusty linksys dd-wrt box) in his room with the wireless turned off.

As the internet is 50Mb/s we thought it would be wise to go for wireless 'n' so the wifi wouldn't limit the speed. As 'n' is 300Mb/s we thought it would be better to plug the NAS directly into the AP for maximum bandwidth over wireless as the linksys router doesn't have gigabit ethernet.

My question is would the setup work? Would the NAS and the print server need to be wired directly into the router instead for it to work?


that's almost the same as my setup mate and it works fine just turn DHCP off on the access point so you only have 1 router dishing out IPs

EDIT

heres mine mate I have 2 virgin N routers flashed with DDWRT

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo97/sniperdude_2008/my%20setup/MyNetworkMap.jpg

[NickCPC]

We were thinking about a similar setup, but found that we ended up just FTPing and our media server got turned into my current PC :P but yeah, looks like a smart setup. It might be cheaper to not get a print server (unless you already have one) and just run a printer off one of your PCs using Homegroup...

[tentimes]

You might consider getting a gigabit switch if the cabling is getting tricky. I picked up two of them recently and they have made life a lot easier - cost about £13 for a 5 port delivered.

[pbar]

Nice diagram Sniperdude.

[Alexceptional]

It might be cheaper to not get a print server (unless you already have one) and just run a printer off one of your PCs using Homegroup...

I already have one, it's pretty old but so is the printer so it's all good. Worked really well last year; having the printer in the hall was handy.



heres mine mate I have 2 virgin N routers flashed with DDWRT


Are those the ones that come with the 50MB package? What model are they?

[Sniperdude]

I already have one, it's pretty old but so is the printer so it's all good. Worked really well last year; having the printer in the hall was handy.



Are those the ones that come with the 50MB package? What model are they?


yes mate both dlink 615 Version D2

not the best routers in the world mate by far but with dd-wrt on them I haven't had a single problem

got one free and grabbed another off the bay for less than a tenner

[Tyke2701]

I'd follow the Gb route as well, I have Three Gb Switches, 2 5 ports and an eight port, all static devices, PC's Servers, PS3's XBOXes and WII are hard wired, The PS3's act as streamers for music and video, the wireless connections are on the BT HomeHub and are used for Laptops, Guest access and mobile devices. I have a 5 port Gb switch that connects to the BTHomehub to provide the networks Internet Access, a connection to a 5 port Hub in the basement with Firewall/AV and Mail Servers and Storage Server, Basically an old PC with 4x 1 Tb drives in it with Gb NIC, and also a connection to an 8port Gb switch for PS3's, PC's with Gb NICs and a connection to 8 port 100Mb switch for the Xbox and Wii and Media Dveices that don't need Gb ports -TP LInk GB ports are cheap and effective along with the NIC's -Hope this helps anybody wondering what can be done -key point is as already stated above if you use a few old wireless routers on the network, Only have one source for the IP addressing.

Also Note, it's not 300Mbs from Wireless N unless you are in a field somewhere and you have clear line of site between the devices, walls, micowaves, dect phones, mobiles etc etc diminish the performance, so you will get a decent speed, up to 3 times what you may get on a 54Gb router but don't expect 300Mbs if all the devices are wireless.