Where should I put my NAS Drive

[bedcurt]

I am planning to buy a NAS(Synology 110J) drive shortly and was thinking where to place it in the house. Ideally it should be attached to the router. But the router is in the hallway connect to the main phone socket which occasionally my children play with and disconnect and I worried that it will fall off the shelf. If I put it elsewhere it will have to be connected to the router via my Devolo Homeplug 200MB which actually run at 54Mb. In various forums I have seem it s recommended to link to the router directly is this correct ?

[mooblie]

Do you not have an extension telephone socket in the house where you can put the router (and NAS) together? - and out of the kids way?
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Martin at HeadSpin HD now on Blu-ray

[bedcurt]

unfortunately not I think I'll have have put one in but i thought the router should be plugged into the main socket
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Tim
(Intel and Power PC mac Mini Ipad and Iphone)

[bedcurt]

unfortunately not I think I'll have have put one in but i thought the router should be plugged into the main socket
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Tim
(Intel and Power PC mac Mini Ipad and Iphone)

[Cypher]

I would install a switch (ideally a gigabit one) in a suitable location close to your computer and where you ideally want the NAS. I would then connect the computer and the NAS directly to the switch.

I would then connect the router to the switch using the cable your use now for your computer, even if that is the homeplug system.

Your connection between the NAS and the computers will be much faster through a wired gigabit switch. Your connection out to the internet via the router will be the bottleneck but thats only passing your internet traffic anyway, which is much slower. The switch will keep the computer to NAS traffic local to the switch.
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Phil

Mac Mini 2.53GHz - iMac 2.0Ghz - Macbook Pro 2.4GHz - iPad 1 32GB 3G
6TB Netgear Ready NAS NV+ - 6TB Drobo S

[bedcurt]

That was really helpful Cypher I'll go ahead now and buy the synology 110J now
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Tim
(Intel and Power PC mac Mini Ipad and Iphone)