How should I set up my home network?

George Hincapie

George Hincapie

George Hincapie

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I am having problems with general performance and wonder if you guys can suggest how I can reconfigure my network to improve things?

We have BT Infinity and the latest HH modem. We connect with the following devices:

PC - Wired
Printer - Wired
3 Mobiles
5 Tablets
3 Laptops
2 Auralic Aries audio streamers
1 NAS - Wired

I want max performance - thoughts?
 
Right I'm going to shoot fast and loose.

I'm putting aside the size of your home, location of the wired devices and workload of certain devices.

What I would do is get myself a bt modem and two quality wifi routers (asus ac87's looking good for price and performance). You might be able to switch a router for a Ethernet switchbox and plug directly into the modem.
Then use a wifi router for everything else. Move your streaming devices/services to the 5ghz network and everything else on the 2.4ghz.

Regards
 
Too little information. Answer Beldd and Alex's questions and you'll get better help.

I'm going to guess there's nothing wrong with performance on the wired devices because the latest HH has gigabit ports I think.
 
bledd said:
List your issues, what speed is the internet? What are the devices used for?
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You mean bandwidth? 47 MB/s

PC used for browsing, streaming and BT downloads. Some gaming.
Tablets used for browsing and streaming.
Mobiles used for browsing and streaming.
Auralic Aries stream super high quality (MQA) audio to the DACs in my main audio system and dedicated headphone station.
Printer...duh.
Nintento WiiU used for gaming and streaming.

Issues - the wired connection to PC us slow when selecting links (the HH is by the front door so I have a 10m ethernet cable run to a Netgear router that connects PC and printer to network). Today a lot of buffering on my Auralic - irritating.

I just want better performance.
 
Issues - the wired connection to PC us slow when selecting links (the HH is by the front door so I have a 10m ethernet cable run to a Netgear router that connects PC and printer to network)...

What does this mean?

Do you have two routers? Help us help you.
 
Sorry I thought I was being clear...

Yes two routers. One in the HH and a seperate Netgear GB basic one to allow PC and printer to used wired connections. Everything else is Wireless.
 
Best practice is to use a single router and use switches when you want to get more ports.

Check that none of the machines are running torrents etc all the time, as that will cause issues.
 
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Looks to me that he needs spread the load of the wifi traffic. You need to create a network that separates certain devices. You could use multiple wifi routers with different ssid's and on different channels. Depending on signal strength connect where necessary.
 
sg0 said:
Looks to me that he needs spread the load of the wifi traffic. You need to create a network that separates certain devices. You could use multiple wifi routers with different ssid's and on different channels. Depending on signal strength connect where necessary.
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I hadn't considered doing that but it seems really sensible. I'll look into it. Thanks.
 
"The wired PC is slow in selecting links". Do you mean hyperlinks on web pages? No way that should be happening on a wired connection. I'd do as Bledd suggests and get that 2nd router swapped out for a gigabit switch.

These Auralics. I don't know anything about them but where is the media held? Do they connect to your network wired or wirelessly. The DACs that take the stream, are they wired or wireless?
 
BigT said:
"The wired PC is slow in selecting links". Do you mean hyperlinks on web pages? No way that should be happening on a wired connection. I'd do as Bledd suggests and get that 2nd router swapped out for a gigabit switch.

These Auralics. I don't know anything about them but where is the media held? Do they connect to your network wired or wirelessly. The DACs that take the stream, are they wired or wireless?
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The Auralics stream WAVs on the NAS and stream MQA from Tidal.

I am using a GB switch, not a router.
 
Is it the NAS wavs that were buffering or the MQA stream?
Is the NAS wired to your router and/or switch?
How do the Auralics connect to your network and the internet, wired or wireless?
 
BigT said:
Is it the NAS wavs that were buffering or the MQA stream?
Is the NAS wired to your router and/or switch?
How do the Auralics connect to your network and the internet, wired or wireless?
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Both streamed Tidal from the net and WAVs from the NAS were buffering which to me points to an internal rather than external issue.

NAS is wired direct to HH. Auralics on 5GHz WIFI.
 
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