For just a little more investment, you could have one like this that would support four devices at 10Gb in addition to all the 1Gb devices you will probably ever need:Hi, can you please advice what switch would be better for connecting NAS to the home network?
If that is all you want, there isn't anything especially wrong with it. It just doesn't have much to offer. In just a few years, I imagine that all networking will be 10Gb. It is kind of how networking went from 10 to 100 to 1000 over the course of a just a few years, but it took a while before people had a desire to go faster than 1000 (1Gb) because the storage wasn't fast enough to keep up. Now that storage is starting to get there, it can actually be a nice thing to have a faster network. Here is an illustration to help.
All the things @l@e said are true and that is the reason I totally sipped an answer here. So much depends on what your home network is, but even more depends on the work network. I would never be able to access my NAS from my work network because there are so many layers of security involved. There are commercial websites I can't even go to.Also how can I access my NAS from my office through internet?
If that is all you want, there isn't anything especially wrong with it. It just doesn't have much to offer. In just a few years, I imagine that all networking will be 10Gb. It is kind of how networking went from 10 to 100 to 1000 over the course of a just a few years, but it took a while before people had a desire to go faster than 1000 (1Gb) because the storage wasn't fast enough to keep up. Now that storage is starting to get there, it can actually be a nice thing to have a faster network. Here is an illustration to help.
This is the speed of a locally connected hard drive in my workstation.
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Another reason of not accessing your home network from your office is to keep your employer from getting something to fire you. Work places usually have network policy wherein trying to circumvent their security procedures is a terminable offense. They also have a code of conduct where accessing private networks is usually prohibited or frowned upon.
Keep your job.
The thing I would suggest then, setup a VPN between the two networks. You can buy routers (or software) that will allow you to create an encrypted PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) between two locations.Thank you for the advice, but I'm self employed and it's not a concern for me. At home I have static white IP, at work I need to check it out.
What I'm looking for is how to actually do it, what software to use?
Ok. Well in that case, since you are the owner of both networks, then it changes things. I would agree with Chris here that a private VPN setup is best. But this would depend on the router software that you use and also on which direction you would want the communication. Whether you want to access the home network from work or work network from home or both. Depending on that you will need to set up the correct VPN server/clients and provide routing to each other's networks.Thank you for the advice, but I'm self employed and it's not a concern for me. At home I have static white IP, at work I need to check it out.
What I'm looking for is how to actually do it, what software to use?
Uncle Fester's Basic FreeNAS Configuration Guide
https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:intro
If you don't have a DHCP server on your network, you will need to manually assign an IP address to the Windows computer also. DHCP or not, both systems need to be in the same IP SubNet or they won't be able to talk to one another. Creating a NAS (Network Attached Storage) presupposes that you know something about Networking.I connected my NAS to switch and my PC with Win 7 to switch too, but on my PC it didn't see the network and can't connect to it:(
Is the router handing out IP addresses by DHCP and what range are those IP addresses in?also my internet router is connected to switch too
Is the router handing out IP addresses by DHCP and what range are those IP addresses in?
This is a problem...just changed it manually to static 192.168.1.7, but still have a problem.
You are showing the NAS to be on 1.7 and the switch to be on 0.1 that is two different subnets. If your desktop is accessing the switch, they must be on the same subnet, but if you can't access the router, which would usually be the thing handing out addresses, then the computer must be on the wrong subnet (as far as the router is concerned.for some reason can't access the router GUI and there is no internet, but access the switch GUI and it says:
DHCP settings---Disabled
IP Address 192.168.0.1
192.168.1.x
where I have that .1.x
you could use 0 or 1 but they all need to match and the last spot where I put x, each thing needs to be different. Usually the router will be on 1 and everything else will count up from there. That should be fine.Subnet MAsk 255.255.255.0
This needs to point at the address for the inside port of the router. A router will usually have an outside port address that is connected to the internet and an inside port address that is connected to your LAN.Default gateway 0.0.0.0.