I just wanted to preface saying I am somewhat inexperienced in networking, so some of this is probably very basic to most of you.
Anyway, basically my current setup consists of 105mbps and 10mbps speeds from Comcast blast. I have my current Comcast Gateway in bridged mode, plugged into a TP-LINK WR841ND. I recently just flashed it with DD-WRT which it is now using, after a period of a year on stock firmware.
The problem is the modem and router are in the basement of my home, and running ethernet cables and wifi through the 90 year old house with thick walls is problematic. For years I just dealt with this, but I am wanting to upgrade the current setup.
Most of my activity is done from a desktop, that is hardwired into the router through a 50 foot Cat6 cable going through the floor. I get 94mbps/7mbps internet speeds and similar LAN speeds from the desktop. In terms of wireless, there are a few smartphones, couple tablets, and a laptop that connect to the TP-LINK router.
I thought that I could accomplish this by doing the following:
Using the cat6 running from the router to the desktop to instead run from the router to Ethernet switch in the same room as the desktop is in.
(Then adding an access point to the network)
From the switch I would connect my desktop and N300 Wireless Access Point. Making a second SSID on the Access Point so I can select the now 'upstairs' wireless connection and getting better wireless signal.
My question/dilemma is, does the ethernet switch split the total uplink with all connected devices? The router is connected to the switch in a 10/100 port, and the switch has 5 10/100 ports. If I had say, the Access Point, Xbox One, and Desktop connected to the switch. Would these devices all split the 10/100 uplink that the switch is plugged into on the router?
For instance, could my desktop download via FTP - from a VPS at full speed (85mbps or so, I currently get 90-95) while the Xbox One is simultaneously downloading files (read: a game). Can both devices use a 10/100 ethernet connect simultaneously and fully saturate it?
Or is it bottlenecked where, if 4 devices were transferring/streaming at full speed simultaneously the switch only provides 25mbps throughput to each? Does that even make sense?
Further, can my desktop use full connection and my access point use full connection for all wifi devices, or would say an iPhone transferring data/streaming be impacted by speeds my desktop is transferring at since they are connected to the same switch - and inherently same port on the router.
This is a super beginner scenario, but I am struggling to find answers to these questions.
Current router: http://amzn.com/B001FWYGJS
New Access Point (ordered already): http://amzn.com/B004UBU8IE
New Ethernet Switch (ordered already): http://amzn.com/B00KFD0SNG
I thought I had it all figured out and ordered it, but all these questions came up after the Amazon order was placed. I definitely jumped the gun but will all of this work for what I'm trying to accomplish?
Thanks so much in advance! Any help/knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
I have no needs to have gigabit local network speeds for large file transfers, and local network streaming is done in 1080p or 720p which Fast Ethernet is able to handle just fine. So that's why I didn't get a gigabit switch.
EDIT: On second thought, would just getting a new TP-LINK WR841N work to accomplish both AP and switch tasks? So it would go like this: Modem -> "master" WR841N router -> LAN on "master" to LAN on "slave" WR841N router. At this point, the slave would be flashed with DD-WRT and turned into an Access Point - DHCP turned off, NAT off, firewall off, seperate SSID from master (so I can manually select this wifi network). I could then use the 3 remaining LAN ports on the "slave" router upstairs as a switch in addition to the wireless access point tasking of the slave router. Do I have that correct? Would all of that work will full 10/100 line speeds?
Submitted by IceSeeYou Xbox 720 Release Date 2015
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