Business nas, office with out internet

[Jameel354]

My farther has a company and they have an old laptop with no back ups of client info and past work. I need to get him a new laptop and a way to backup he's work. I have a laptop in mind but it is the NAS that is hurting my mind, he does not have internet at he's office and I would like him to have a NAS. I was thinking of getting him a cheap wifi extender with a WD MY CLOUD MIRROR. So it would run like this NAS to wifi extender and the laptop would be connect to the wifi extender. Would that work? Is it worth it? Any better way of doing this? Should I do it? Will it work as planed?

 

Nas = https://www.wdc.com/en-gb/products/personal-cloud-storage/my-cloud-mirror-gen-2.html#WDBWVZ0060JWT-EESN

Wifi extender = http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/networking/wifi-range-extenders/WN2000RPT.aspx?cid=wmt_netgear_organic

 

Thanks for your help 

Jameel

[ProjectBox153]

If you lay out the network from start to end, beginning in your case to the main WiFi router, you should connect the NAS as far down as possible. This means connect it to the main WiFi router. Anything "behind" the router, i.e. the laptop and whatever else, will be able to connect to the NAS. If you connect it to the WiFi extender, you probably aren't going to be able to access it from the main WiFi network.

[Jameel354]

The Office does not have internet so it would go Nas to router to laptop

 

Hope this is right

Could you recommend a cheap router for this?

[brwainer]

You could just use a switch, but that would require setting a static IP on the computer and the NAS. For convenience, I would recommend getting a router just so that you have DHCP. Any router with Gigabit ports will work for you - literally any router.

 

I recommend that you first connect the NAS somewhere with internet and check for updates on it.

[Zodiark1593]

On Friday, December 09, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Jamiec1130 said:

If you lay out the network from start to end, beginning in your case to the main WiFi router, you should connect the NAS as far down as possible. This means connect it to the main WiFi router. Anything "behind" the router, i.e. the laptop and whatever else, will be able to connect to the NAS. If you connect it to the WiFi extender, you probably aren't going to be able to access it from the main WiFi network.

A NAS behind an extender will also connect to the Main network as well. I've had such a setup at my house for awhile where I required an extender to connect my desktop to wifi. I could still access my network shares on devices via the main network, and even Steam in home Streaming (albeit, not a very good experience). 

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, Zodiark1593 said:

A NAS behind an extender will also connect to the Main network as well. I've had such a setup at my house for awhile where I required an extender to connect my desktop to wifi. I could still access my network shares on devices via the main network, and even Steam in home Streaming (albeit, not a very good experience). 

That's never been the case for me with FreeNAS.