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Guidance on setting up a personal home network.

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September 23, 2013 2:31:22 PM

I know there is plenty of threads about this and i have learned a lot but here my situation.

Currently this will be at my parents house because I still live with them and I watch over them basically. They use technology everyday so they are not clueless.

anyways we are using at&t with 18 down and 3 up i believe ( i may be changing this when i start this project)

This is a 2 story house there will be 4 computers running 3 cellphones, 1 printer, 3 game systems, and 4 rokus.

What im looking to accomplish is:

I want to learn to deal with routers, switches, and access points.

have file sharing for movies and tv shows over the the network using the roku

Want VPN, DNS, and VOIP

Want to be able to remote into every computer on the network.

And i want to access this equipment from a remote location as I won't alsways be living with them.

My questions are

what switches will i need and how many will i need for this project?

Will this project be overly expensive?

Can i connect survaillence cameras on this network as well?

Will this be to hard for someone trying to learn to do all this from scratch?

And please be open minded about this its mainly for experience so i can pass these certs and I don't have a budget but id want this to be pretty cheap.

I will be using windows server 2008 for this project and if im missing any information pllllease don't hesitate. I will be starting this project once I actually get all the info that i need.

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September 23, 2013 3:13:11 PM

OK...let's back up 3 or 4 steps here.

Why do you feel you need to watch over their network? My kids and stepchild are almost 30, and none of them have any access into my network. Period. "Parents" are not automatically 'clueless'.
Are they old and frail? And by old and frail, I mean really old.....75+.
And if they are that old and frail, they don't need 4 Roku boxes, etc.

Or do you still live with your parents?

Setup the main router, and maybe a WiFi AP or two if you see coverage is not what they need.

Surveillance cameras? Yes, I have them. A dedicated 4 cam/DVR setup. The box runs some Linux variant. Accessible online only if I configure it so. Do my kids have access to it? Not a chance.
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September 23, 2013 5:10:14 PM

Yes i live with then along with 3 other siblings. Its more of a leanring experience for myself then anything.
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September 23, 2013 5:15:37 PM

And the AP is more for the bad signal downstairs so probaly only 1. Don't look at me as a "kid trying to get access to everything" Look at it as an adult doing this for learning experience and to take my parents off cable tv
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September 23, 2013 11:05:14 PM

You are working backwards don't find a solution and make it fit you need to see what the problems are and solve them. Why would you need any server. You likely just need a run of the mill router and a second one running as a AP to cover dead areas for wireless.

Remote access is much easier and safer using something like teamviewer that trying to do it yourself.

Even the certs you are working at it the wrong way. It appears you do not even have the base knowledge which is purely theory and not actual configuration of stuff. You need to go read the books for whatever cert you are trying first. When it gets to configuration most time you will setup purely test networks in virtual or simulated environments.

I can promise you roku does not replace cable tv for most people. Sure if all you do is watch movies all day it can replace it but it does not replace any live content. You at best get network TV the next day and not all programs are on. Any form of sports or news is not real useful delayed if it is even shown in a delayed mode at all. Then you get a lot of networks that refuse to let their content be shown on things like roku. CBS is the example that comes to mind. All the other networks you can get a lot of their shows on paid hulu but CBS you can only get directly from their web site and it does not allow roku and only a tiny handful of show are available. The content providers biggest customers are the cable companies and they will only go so far to compete with them...unless you are willing to buy huge bundles of crap from them like the cable companies do.
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