The building will have a robust networking system. This network will have to be segregated as you wouldn’t want me to access your printer as much as I wouldn’t want you to access my NAS. All ethernet lines will run in the communications room which will be located in the basement. Each floor will have a wifi access point to assure that you have a strong and stable wifi connection. However, whereas each ethernet jack will provide 10GBPS connection, if the wifi network is 1,000MBPS, and there are 5 devices on the network, then each device only receives 200MBPS. With that in mind, it would make more sense to plug devices into the ethernet when it is possible. There will be a communications cupboard, This cupboard will provide support for all television options.
For networking, each network will receive their own IP address range. The IP address range will be for every device connected to the network, including your guest network activity. The IP address are as follows:
- apartment: 192.168.2.xxx
- Residence: 192.168.4.xxx
Again, by having a segregated network design, it assures that you would have your own network resources even though all of the LAN networks will share the WAN Internet connection. All of the public accessed servers will be on its own network since it has to be accessible via the internet for them to work out.
Internet
I will have a 2GBPS FiOS connection with a 500MBPS backup cable service. I am sure there will be a higher expense, but I will opt for a static connection since I will have public accessible servers. The servers will operate in a fashion that it would make the most sense to me. I will have one server to handle all of my resources. The network server will have to be robust enough to allow everyone to use the internet equally. The network server will have a minimum of 16GB of memory, and will have a 128GB of storage for the OS and WAN applications. There will also be another 256GB storage for cache, and other resource. Cache will make the network seem faster, and more efficiently.
There will be a VPN server. I will set my notebook PC to where it will always connect to this VPN server. This will allow me access to my LAN, and I will be able to use the resources available on the LAN. For example, I could theoretically print from a coffee shoppe to my printer at home, and the prints will be there waiting for me. I will also be able to access a media server, and my notebook will be able to back up since it is able to behave as if I was on my LAN. To assure that I will always have an internet connection while out, I will have a mobile Wifi router. This router will be turned on before my notebook, and therefore will connect automatically. Essentially, anything I can access while home will also be accessed while I am out.
Both residences will have a wifi network. The access point will always be the latest version of wifi which will increase when technology improves. The wifi network will be good for devices that can’t connect with an ethernet line such as smartphones, or tablets. Also, many light notebook PCs don’t have an ethernet port. The tenant will have 2f, and 2f-g for the guest network. My network will be f4, and f4-g. The second of the two sets of networks is for guest access. I would recommend an easier to type password for that. In my case, I will likely use my telephone number as the passphrase for my guest network.
Telephone
I was considering having a telephony server to handle telephone calls, however I decided against it. Instead, my fax number will be a fax number, and my voicemail number will be a voicemail number. With a telephony server, I would have been able to combine these, but I then realized that I would need my voicemail number to be unique to make things work the way I want things to work.
My SIP carrier offers extensions which could be thought of as sub-accounts. The Home telephone number will be on a unique extension, and the fax telephone number will be on a unique extension. The voicemail number will actually forward to another voicemail service that would be needed for its role.
Television
I will likely use an IPTV service provider for my television service. I will continue to use the Tablo for my recording of local channels, and to watch local channels. The IPTV service will be an app installed on the TV, and that app will give me all of the services I would need. Simply put, I don’t see the justification to spend almost $200+ for cable television when I can get most if not all of the channels I would want for less than half of that price.
As for the tenant, they will have indirect access to a Tablo 4 tuner DVR box. This box is located in the communications room within the basement, but plugged into their networking switch. This will grant them the access they will need without actually needing to touch the device. Everything will be setup, and when the tenant moves out, the Tablo will be reset for the next tenant.