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DavidKalinowski
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I ran out of ports on my asus RT-AC56U router. A buddy of mine who works IT at a bank got some nice 48 port Nortel Gigabit switches that the bank was de-commissioning because they where upgrading.  The switch in question is a Nortel 5520-48t-pwr (its loud as fuck too.. I'm going to replace the fans at some point. 6 40mm fans.. ugh. I'm thinking dremel some vents on the top and just use 2 or 3 120mm fans in a push-pull setup and eliminate the small ones all together. I've got the room for it since I've got it mounted in a closet in my office room.) any way  my buddy gifted me one, they have been factory reset and I turned off POE to all the ports. I'm in the planning stages of redoing my entire network to more or less eliminate the asus router, but I still need to have wifi access for phones/tablets/etc.

 

I should just have to put the router into AP mode and plug the switch into the up-link of the router, with my cable modem supplying the switch correct? My biggest concern honestly is my printer, I want it hardwired into the switch because its wifi is flaky, but I want my wife's laptop to still see it. ( I really should have paid more attention in my Cisco networking classes, but I don't set up and maintain these kind of switches where I work, I'm not on the network team and that was like 2 years ago.)

 

Modem ---- > Switch -----> Access Point

                         |----other devices

 

Any ways, is it that easy or am I missing/forgetting something

 

TIA.

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Simply put, everything needs to connect to your router at some point. If you set your Asus router into AP mode, the modem will act as a router (the router in this scenario basically being the one that gives out local IP addresses)

 

So if your modem is acting as your router, then yes. Your proposed layout will work for that.

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the modem is  standalone IIRC. (not at home to look at it, I do remember it has a phone jack and can run a home phone if I subscribe to it, which I dont.)

 

I currently have it going modem--asus router

 

the switch is a layer 3 switch also and from what I was seeing in the config menu it looks like it does have routing capabilty (i've found the manual online and its almost 400 pages.. lolz.. I aint go time to read that ;)

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18 minutes ago, DavidKalinowski said:

the modem is  standalone IIRC. (not at home to look at it, I do remember it has a phone jack and can run a home phone if I subscribe to it, which I dont.)

 

I currently have it going modem--asus router

 

the switch is a layer 3 switch also and from what I was seeing in the config menu it looks like it does have routing capabilty (i've found the manual online and its almost 400 pages.. lolz.. I aint go time to read that ;)

I would make sure the switch can do NAT as well.

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