Devices connected to a switch cannot see NAS connected to the router

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telepopmusik2004

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Hi,

I recently had my home networked with cat 6 cables to smoothly run media from my NAS to all the TVs.

I needed more ports so I had to connect a switch TL-R402M (TP Link) to my Netgear (DGND3700v2) router. Since doing this all devices connected to the switch are getting internet but cannot communicate with devices connected to the Router.

I need the devices connected to the switch (4 TVs on my home network) to be able to see media server on my Synology NAS connected to the router. I have searched the internet. Tried many solutions but no success.

I even tried connecting my laptop to the switch but again the same thing. It connects to the internet but cannot browse partitions on the diskstation. The diskstation is virtually invisible to the switch.

Any suggestions please? Consider me a rookie in networking.

Thanks in advance
 
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bill001g

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Your main problem is the device you calling a switch is actually a router. You have to only use the lan ports and many times you must still configure the device to have things like the dhcp interfere. You may be better off just buy a small gigabit switch instead. That router only have 10/100 ports and since you talk about using NAS it will run faster if you can have gigabit connections.
 
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telepopmusik2004

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Thanks bill001g and kanewolf. I never checked whether I was using a switch or router. I always thought I had a spare switch but turns out it's a router. I have now bought a 5 port gigabit switch and $29 later everything is working fine.
 
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