FredHansen
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Hello there!
My freeNAS is connected to the network via a wifi repeater (unfortunately this is the only LAN-Network access I have because I have physical (/digital) access to the router). It can be addressed with the standard domain (freenas.local) from inside the network. It has only 1 network adapter (1000mbit). My main workstation is connected to the same network via wifi, so the communication route between my PC and the NAS is like NAS-CABLE-REPEATER-WIFI-ROUTER-WIFI-PC, which results in maximum connection speeds of around 200mbits which is simply not enough for large data transmission like terabytes of backups.
My idea was to take a simple network switch (I don't think it supports LACP), connect the repeater, the NAS and my workstation to it, so I can directly communicate from my workstation with the NAS using the Switch and also use the NAS from other devices normally.
Unfortunately I don't know how to configure the NAS to work with the switch. I've tried to configure a VLAN from my NAS to solve the issue, but unfortunately I'm clearly no expert and I don't even know how I can configure the NAS so it's addressable with freenas.local from the network again, so I'm stuck with "The web interface could not be accessed.".
It would really appreciate it if someone could give me tips or a short tutorial on how to set this up or has a workaround (connect the NAS to the workstation and forward it to the network? Get a USB-network-adapter and connect the workstation with a cross-cable?)
Thank you all very much!
Fred
My freeNAS is connected to the network via a wifi repeater (unfortunately this is the only LAN-Network access I have because I have physical (/digital) access to the router). It can be addressed with the standard domain (freenas.local) from inside the network. It has only 1 network adapter (1000mbit). My main workstation is connected to the same network via wifi, so the communication route between my PC and the NAS is like NAS-CABLE-REPEATER-WIFI-ROUTER-WIFI-PC, which results in maximum connection speeds of around 200mbits which is simply not enough for large data transmission like terabytes of backups.
My idea was to take a simple network switch (I don't think it supports LACP), connect the repeater, the NAS and my workstation to it, so I can directly communicate from my workstation with the NAS using the Switch and also use the NAS from other devices normally.
Unfortunately I don't know how to configure the NAS to work with the switch. I've tried to configure a VLAN from my NAS to solve the issue, but unfortunately I'm clearly no expert and I don't even know how I can configure the NAS so it's addressable with freenas.local from the network again, so I'm stuck with "The web interface could not be accessed.".
It would really appreciate it if someone could give me tips or a short tutorial on how to set this up or has a workaround (connect the NAS to the workstation and forward it to the network? Get a USB-network-adapter and connect the workstation with a cross-cable?)
Thank you all very much!
Fred