Help with creating and setting up Home network
Okay so I'm old and well Setting-up networks have never been my thing. To make matter worse After experiencing what I like to call a Heart Hick-Up last year I have acquired a new friend called severe anxiety which only makes it even harder for me to figure all this out.
So I apologize up front to everyone if I get easily frustrated or if I just don't seem to get things as easily as I should..... Trust me I have been trying to read up on my onw and well lets just say its like someone just cuffed me upside the old noodle cause damned if I remember anything lately.
Okay so first things first, what the hell do I have you ask...
- From Shaw internet (Canada) I have a Hitron CGNM-2250 WiFi router/modem. Now if this is an issue I could look at switching to a different one through them.
- a TP-Link Archer AX6000 (US) V1
- a TP-Link AX73 (Canadian) V1
- 3x's 5 Port network switches
- Netgear extender
As for what I am trying to connect and so on;
on the 2.4 GHz
-15 WiFi Cameras
- 3 WiFi motion sensors
-16 WiFi Smart light bulbs
- 5 WiFi Smart plugs
- 2 WiFi Smart Power bars
- 2 WiFi Heating blanket
- Google Home (currently have 2 nest Mini's and 1 Nest Hub - but may look at adding)
- Google Chromcast
- 1 Xbox
WiFi / Lan
- 2 Smart TVs'
- 3 Android TV boxes
- 3 Desktop PC's
- 1 Laptop
- 1 Tablet
- 3 Android smart phones
Misc
- 2 external HDD's
I think that's everything...lol
From what I understand (I think..LOL) the WiFi lights, cameras, plugs, sensors and that are somewhat easier to hack or gain access to the network through.
So I would like to set things up where I have 2 separate WiFi networks (each one have 2.4 and 5Ghz). One for the WiFi Lights, cams ect and the other for the PC's, TVs', Cell's. The Google Home I am not sure how and which one to put it on. If I have it on the same as the PC's can it control the WiFi lights?
I live in a large home 3bdr, 3level split on a good size lot ( 2 Acre ). Can supply a rough floor plan if need be. The internet comes into the house currently in the office which is located midway along the front of the ground floor. I have run 1 lan cable to the living room (located on the first level split to the far side of the house) into a 5 Port and when I did that I also ran a couple of extra strings in case I wanted to add another Lan (beats crawling through the crawl space again). I also ran a Lan from teh Office through the family room to a 5 Port so that I could feed the TV there and then ran 1 cable up into the Master bedroom as well as another into the Garage.
What I imagine is that I may need to have the lan come from the Shaw Modem/router to the AX600 located in the office (?) then from there carry the lan into the Dining room to the AX73. The Extender can either use a Lan or WiFi and was going to go into the garage. Now it was suggested to me to use the 2 TP-Links separate. The Ax73 for the cams and so on and the 6000 for everything else. I was also told that would be a waste of the AX6000's capabilities.
"GAD I'M SOOOO confused"...lol
I can follow direction well enough, a Gilligan I'm not. I dont understand all this IP, subnets and so on ....
Oh did I mention I also have Nord VPN?
or that I'd love to be able to access my home network when I was away from Home (specifically the external HDD's (if thats recomended)
Thanks in advance