I've failed in my search for answering and thought perhaps the community could help.
I'm about to move into a new house. Right after close, I'm going to have the interior wired for CAT6. Six locations with 2 drops each wired to the master closet.
My plan is to use my current existing router (ASUS n66u) and bridge from the gateway. However, after seeing a thread about multicast and IGMPv3 switches, I need to know how the cabling can work with my DVR traffic impacting the rest of my devices.
Original plan:
Living Room
gateway (NGS589?)
- n66u
-- DVR
-- Xbox
-- Receiver
-- Uplink to master closet
Master closet
- 8/16 port IGMPv3 snooping switch w/ uplinks
-- uplink from/to n66u
-- uplink from/to dvr
-- uplink from/to dvr 2
Bedroom 4
4 port switch
- Uplink to master closet
- DVR 2
- Xbox
- PS3
Now after seeing the multicast issue, I don't want my living room DVR traffic to mix in with the regular house Internet traffic over the one uplink. So what are my options?
Living Room - put 3 or 4 ports instead of 2
gateway (NGS589?)
- n66u
-- Xbox
-- Receiver
-- Uplink to master closet
DVR (2nd Uplink from/to master closet - different vlan?)
Bedroom 4
DVR 2 (uplink from/to master closet - different vlan?)
4 port switch
- Uplink to master closet
- Xbox
- PS3
Why put the gateway in the living room? Because it is one of the locations that is pre-wired from the outside box. This was not a location I could change during the house build. Also the living room is roughly centered in the house making it a fairly ideal location for the N66u. Thoughts?
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