Hi all, I'm building a house as we speak and I've got my cables all setup (cat 5e everywhere), but I'm still not sure I get all the pieces of a U-verse network.
Here's what I will be running.
2-3 TVs (with 2 STBs)
3-5 PC/laptops
3-4 tablets
2-3 smartphones
Xbox - yes with FPS so I need this to have a high priority
Roku
My plan, tentative though it is, is to run the STBs directly from the gateway. I'll have a gigabit switch in the On-Q panel to link the rest of the network to the gateway. I'll have the majority of the rest of the devices connected directly to that switch, except for my office which will have a (I'm planning) a wireless router with a 4-port gigabit LAN.
I'll have the network printer, two laptops, and a NAS attached directly to that. I'm looking at the ASUS RT-AC66U for this. The guest mode and some other features would be very convenient for me.
My questions are as follows
1) Is the RG smart enough NOT to send multicast packets to the non-STB ports on the RG? If not, does the switch need to be managed or will an unmanged QoS capable switch be able to handle stopping the multicast packets?
2) For this setup, would it be better to run the gateway in DMZ mode and run everything through the switch? This will present a bit of an issue as I would need at least 9 ports + an uplink port.
3) VLANs using a netgear 108T or equivalent? I can do a fair bit of networking, but I've never setup a VLAN (or used a managed switch before).
4)?? I'm sure I'm missing something here. What else do I need to be thinking about?
I appreciate all advice.
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