First Real Network Setup
Hi all,
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I’d love a quick sanity check on my planned home network setup for our old apartment building.
The apartment is around 80m² in an old brick building, so there are no existing Ethernet runs. That means I’ll need to route either Ethernet or fiber along doors/hallways.
I already run an “invisible” fiber cable from the ISP wall socket to the modem, so I’m planning to do the same for the living room switch connection.
Some hardware is reused, some will be new:
- Existing: QNAP QSW-1108-8T (2.5G unmanaged)
- Planned: UCG Fiber + Flex 2.5G
- Future projects: Proxmox + Pi-hole
The long-term plan is to add 10G NICs to the NAS and gaming PC and connect them over fiber/10G.
I’m also considering bypassing the ISP modem entirely using a WAS-110 module. If that doesn’t work, the fallback is putting the ISP modem into DMZ mode behind the UCG Fiber (unfortunately bridge mode isn’t supported).
Main questions:
- Any obvious problems or bottlenecks in this setup?
- Any smart use for the old unmanaged QNAP switch in a VLAN-based network?
- Would you change anything before I start pulling cables?
Attached is the current layout diagram.
Cheers!