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matt1147

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I currently have a Linksys WRT160 (I think) its their gigabit router. I have a synology ds710+ (used as a personal cloud device) and a desktop pc that I do some gaming on hard wired to my router. I also have multiple laptops, multiple Iphone/Ipods, a PS3, WII and a thermostat connected via wifi.

I am considering in relocated my network to a different part of the house and I'm looking at the option of upgrading my router to something better. I would like something that can allow video streaming locally and remotely. And something that can handle data transfer between devices and can handle largish files. Such as media editing and transferring files between devices and my cloud.

I also stream movies to my ps3 over wifi and cant complain about lag for that. I continue to use my ps3 to have my media streamed to.

It was mentioned that I could get a internet switch that I would place after my modem and have my synology ds710+ and my router plugged into the switch As this can give better speeds to my cloud?

If thats the case, and If I am able to hard wire my ps3 to the switch as well. This way I can divide the devices a little bit?



Or would there a better solution to that or to what I have?
 
where do you currently have the synology plugged in?
whether it's plugged in to a gigabit router or a gigabit switch that's downstream of the router, won't really affect the bandwidth to/from the synology (depending on the number of connections throughout the network, anyway)

plugging your PS3 directly into a switch will greatly help with streaming, due to the massive increase in bandwidth and (relatively) less overhead.

I have no clue what a "internet switch" is.
With your example, though, assuming your ISP provides you with more than 1 IP, you would be completely exposing your synology directly to the internet (not exactly secure).
And this would not help much with anything, except a higher chance of someone accessing your data.

Generally a router is not a bottleneck, even for streaming something over the internet. It's the the speed of your internet connection; namely the upload.
 
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