Nightowl805
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This I am sure is very basic so I apologize up front. I am building my first Freenas box for basic backup and mostly plex. I currently have Time Warner Cable. Before Freenas I have the time warner cable box with wifi turned off connected to an Asus RT AC 66R. I have 4 ports out of the time warner modem with just the Asus plugged into it. I have four out ports on the Asus currently I have a printer and sonos for that. My server motherboard supermicro x10sra has two Intel gb lan's. My house is two stories with the routers and server upstairs in the extra bedroom. I will be serving 4 Roku's for plex in house and maybe two Roku's outside the house, one in WA and one is AZ.
So first question. Do I plug the server from to the time warner cable modem or the Asus. Do I need another Intel nic card and should I make it a 2 port Intel gb or 10gb nic card. I vaguely understand link aggregation but not sure if that can actually help me if I am serving everything wirelessly. Also, do I need a switch? Managed or un managed, don't know the difference and is a gb switch or do I need to be thinking about a 10 gb switch.
And lastly, my internet speed is 100mb download. When I cut the cable lol, should I upgrade to the 300mb download/100mb upload. This will help my serving the outside Roku's but will do nothing for my wireless speeds?
Thank you, lots of questions.
So first question. Do I plug the server from to the time warner cable modem or the Asus. Do I need another Intel nic card and should I make it a 2 port Intel gb or 10gb nic card. I vaguely understand link aggregation but not sure if that can actually help me if I am serving everything wirelessly. Also, do I need a switch? Managed or un managed, don't know the difference and is a gb switch or do I need to be thinking about a 10 gb switch.
And lastly, my internet speed is 100mb download. When I cut the cable lol, should I upgrade to the 300mb download/100mb upload. This will help my serving the outside Roku's but will do nothing for my wireless speeds?
Thank you, lots of questions.