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20.7 Legacy Series / Optimize network for Fios - settings, switches and WAP
« on: October 05, 2020, 07:44:07 am »
Hey y'all. I am new to the whole commercial grade router bit but I keep frying consumer stuff. So I decided to build my own and have been happy with it so far. My upgrade to 20.7 was bumpy but it seems to be rolling along now. Time to optimize for my Fios Gigabit and network setup. Here is my current set-up
Fios modem (just the modem, no Fios router or moca bridge) to the Opnsense router (Lenovo M91P USFF) motherboard's network port.
Opnsense router consists of a Lenovo M91p USFF with a Intel Core i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 cores), 8 gb ram, 120 gb SSD, with a Jeirdus (Intel Chipset 82546) dual-port gigabit 8492MT PCI Server NIC which is connected to a TP-Link switch. (Yes, the M91p USFF is weird with a PCI instead of PCI-e, I know I am close to saturating the PCI bus with a gigabit connection but Fios doesn't seem to be able to deliver over 1.1 gigabit to my house and never consistently.)
The TP-Link TL-SG108 switch has attached a TP-Link EAP225 V3 AC1350 WAP, Netgear GSS-108E managed switch (set to dumb), and 2 other PCs.
The Netgear GSS-108E is behind my TV and is feeding my Roku, StreamLink (only one of these can be in use at one time as they are all to the same TV), PS4 and laptop. Eventually this may see both the laptop and a PC.
I would like to optimize the Opnsense settings and the network set-up in general. I tried to connect the Netgear switch directly to the other open port on the NIC with no luck. So I just put it in the TP-Link router which has everything running. I am running basically out of the box 20.7, no WLAN for the WAP or anything.
Any advice and guidance is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Fios modem (just the modem, no Fios router or moca bridge) to the Opnsense router (Lenovo M91P USFF) motherboard's network port.
Opnsense router consists of a Lenovo M91p USFF with a Intel Core i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 cores), 8 gb ram, 120 gb SSD, with a Jeirdus (Intel Chipset 82546) dual-port gigabit 8492MT PCI Server NIC which is connected to a TP-Link switch. (Yes, the M91p USFF is weird with a PCI instead of PCI-e, I know I am close to saturating the PCI bus with a gigabit connection but Fios doesn't seem to be able to deliver over 1.1 gigabit to my house and never consistently.)
The TP-Link TL-SG108 switch has attached a TP-Link EAP225 V3 AC1350 WAP, Netgear GSS-108E managed switch (set to dumb), and 2 other PCs.
The Netgear GSS-108E is behind my TV and is feeding my Roku, StreamLink (only one of these can be in use at one time as they are all to the same TV), PS4 and laptop. Eventually this may see both the laptop and a PC.
I would like to optimize the Opnsense settings and the network set-up in general. I tried to connect the Netgear switch directly to the other open port on the NIC with no luck. So I just put it in the TP-Link router which has everything running. I am running basically out of the box 20.7, no WLAN for the WAP or anything.
Any advice and guidance is appreciated. Thanks in advance.