I recently purchased the MikroTik 12-Port 10G Switch with Dual Power Supply (CRS312-4C+8XG-RM) and have added it to my home network. I already have a 1 Gbps Cable Modem, Wireless Network Router, and an existing 1 G switch (Netgear) that I bought several years ago. The intention of adding a 10G switch was to have a higher bandwidth network for a NAS (Synology) and have my multiple family computers use this as a fast backup/restore channel and also for file sharing, VM access.
Overall It is working fine, but I was wondering (as a bit of a network newbie) as I have the MikroTik Managed Switch connected to the existing Netgear 1GB as an uplink and I'm able to have systems connect to it but sometimes the connection goes over the 1 GB network. Is there some simple way (perhaps by subnetting or setting up static routes) to have specific applications (Acronis Backup) use the 10 GB network first in terms of priority?
I'd also like avoid having any traffic for this NAS go over the 1 GB network or the WIFI if possible.
Its my first foray into a more advanced network configuration so apologies for the newbie questions....