Networking question :P

I know a lot of you will probably laugh your ass off right now but yea I have a technical question I'm supposed to design a network grid for our new house but I just know the most basic things about networking so I need a little help from anyone who has experience in this area

Requirements:
15-20 network sockets spread across 3 floors
Complete wifi coverage of the 3 floors
NAS server (data storage)
2 TVs with access to the NAS server

First of all I'm gonna need the devices required for this and the order (or a sketch) of how they are plugged into each other. I thought it might be possible to do it this way but I've never used switches and access points in practice and don't have much understanding about their restrictions

Modem -> wifi router (might cover the area i need on the lowest floor)-> 24 port switch that covers all network sockets

Also have a few related questions
1. Should I plug the NAS server into the switch or directly into the router (does it matter?)
2. Should the access points be plugged into the switch or the router (does it matter?)
3. Do access points simply extend the routers wifi range? What happens when you move between areas covered by different access points, does your connection drop out as you reconnect to one with a stronger signal as if you had 2 different wifi networks in range? (I don't fully understand how these work, an explanation would help)
4. Is it better to have a central switch and network cables covering all 3 floors from there or use a single network cable for every floor and have a separate switch on each one that handles the sockets for that floor

If you think this is unrealistic and have a better way of setting it up do share, this is just my guess as an amateur

Note: Since yesterday I can't really load the forums properly, takes 2-3 minutes per page/refresh, asked another friend in the UAE and my sister back in Czech Republic and neither of them can load the forums either so I won't be around much to check this thread but leave any ideas you can think of and I will check them when I can.

Thanks a lot

 

Seems like the forums/website had issues for the past few days, not just for me, anyways can finally load them again.


So...does anyone have any ideas please? ^^

 

I'm going to pretend I don't see a double post here since the forums were, shall we say, indisposed. :ninja:

 

Lets say it was his 24 hour bump?

Smarty asking a question. How strange. ~o^
Wish I could help ya. Sounds complicated.

 

it says a day ago and yeah they couldnt have answered it anyways since the forums were down

so...does nobody know? o.o gotta find out in the next few days so i can make a sketch and send it to the architects

 

Big question, i dont know much of it either. But i have a main router from where the internet comes from. Form there it jumps to a secondary router from where it divides into 2 machines, then it goes to another router in the second floor, thats the wifi hotspot and where I am located.

About the NAS server, it doesn t matter as long it appears in the your network.
Just from experience and observation, all that those switch boards do is split the net signal. So if you plug a router to it, it will have signal, and you can split it again as long you have enough bandwith to spare. What I have no idea how to do well, is setting up the net ID for all the routers and stuff...

You can have a main router and a main switch and then spread to all over the house. Or switches in all the floors, that setting depends in the amount of machines pluged to you network by floor. The first solution is more cheaper than the second though.

I have never worked with acces points, but if they have a net signal they will work. If you are connected to wifi "A", it will decay if you go out of its range of course, and you will need to re connect to the range of wifi "B" but if all your access points are wifi "A" the signal wont decay when you move between them.

And well, thats all I know.
Good luck with it.

 

for ur "router in a router" i read that ur never supposed to do that since theres conflicts with which 1 assigns IPs to devices BUT some routers can be reconfigured as access points (guessing its ur case) so only the main router assigns them and the other only increases the wifi range

about access points having overlaps, i read that it can interrupt the connection since ur still switching from device to device but yes its still the same network (apparently some software can prevent dropping a connection until ur already connected to the next one). either way though i have no idea how to set those up

anyways thx