Hi there,
I have renovated my house and wired all rooms and even outside with cat 6 ethernet cables. I am in the process of selecting the suitable equipment for my home/home office network.
I have symmetric fiber with 750 Mbs internet connection (can get up to a gigabit). I have a survailance system with a few ip security cameras connected to the NVR recording 24/7. In addition I have a lot of smart sensors, lights and switches I use for home automation using wifi, zigbee and z-wave technologies managed centrally with Home Assistant. I am going to set up a NAS to be used in home and home office networks. I would like to have a few VLAN for surveillance system, other smart home equipment, main home network, home office and guest networks with the ability to manage the connections across the networks. I work from home, therefore I would like to have a fast connection to company VPN. Now I get around 100Mbs via vpn which is not enough for my work. In addition I want to have my own fast VPN for my own business (working on it ) that lets me connect to the network (home office) and provide a few others to work with me remotely.
I can think of a few obvious equipment types:
- A wired router
- A switch (probably manageable may come with a poe for a access point)
- An access point with both 2.4 and 5 GHz signal, VLAN capable since wireless devices from different VLANs would be connected
I have a 18U rack with a patch panel for 24 connections. I have a 3 story house. The ISP router/AP is located on the 1st floor and I still get about 60 Mbs on the 3rd floor. I believe if I put the access point in the 2nd floor the overall signal strength would be more uniform across the floors.
I hope I could clearly express my situation and need to get a few suggestions on the equipment and network plan/design.
Thank you for any comment.