is there a reason you would want the modem on the switch?
The reason was to only have to run a single Ethernet cable to the hall instead of a pair, but I realized that wouldn’t work anyway because there is port separation on routers for external and internal to the LAN.
Are you going to do a ‘mesh’ to the satellite APs or are they going to be on the LAN (you mentioned re-wiring).
There would be no mesh. I think the house is too small for it. My mother’s house is 50% bigger and 3 floors instead of 2 with the router in the basement, but in a wood house. With no mesh only 1 room had no WiFi until she put an AP in the opposite corner. Now there is trouble with stability in 50% of the house as the power wasn’t reduced and they overlap by probably 40% or so. Frequent service freezes until it can resolve the correct point to switch to.
The little advice that I have seen is “brick walls -> get a bunch of access points” but that doesn’t sit right with me.
Currently we are using a Proximus (our ISP) modem/router in the northwest most far corner or the house and still get weak signal (enough for lower quality videos like Instagram reels) all the way in the southeast corner on the 2nd floor. It goes through 2 brick walls, a concrete floor, and a door and we can still use WiFi 6. Intuitively I would then set up something like an Asus rt-ax58u or a zenwifi XT8 mounted to the staircase wall or in the hallway in the center of the house. I don’t know if that would be strong enough to reach everything we need, but it seems better to me than a router in each corner and blasting channel noise at our neighbors’ houses since in belgium there isn’t much side-garden if any.
4 access points would be chaos of overlapping channels, noise, devices never knowing which access point to connect to and choosing the worse one or WiFi on the phone/laptop completely freezing service until a reconnect, and blasting RF noise all over our neighbors’ houses.
My mother already has thowe problems bad enough with one wireless router + 1 access point. That’s also why she sees 15 networks on a street of 20 houses far apart from each other.
I think that 1 wireless router in the middle of the house would reach every corner, but I wanted to be somewhat sure before I drop 150-200€
Smart lock on the security door would allow you to carry only 1 key if you have a keypad lock. Though with a gate door like that, you would need it to be 2 sided which I don’t not know of any.
Though if you had a keyless smart lock on the outside, a potential thief would have to have both lockpicking/crowbar entry + digital entry capabilities which may reduce risk, but probably not much.
From a practical perspective those doors are worse than useless because they cost money and offer little to no benefit. If you need a key to get out from the inside, it js a fire hazard, if you don’t, you might as well not have it (the case at businesses that have it because they must follow fire regulations more strictly).
It’s interesting nowadays. My windows 11 navigation bar on my work computer now crashes 10x as much as plasma Wayland does. Completely reverse of years earlier.
Along with dozens of other problems like invisibly disabling the microphones so the only way to unmute them is to use the audio troubleshooter, my windows laptop gets more unstable with every update while KDE Wayland gets more stable with every update.
That’s what I do. I always thought I was doing it “wrong” but it just made sense to me. I can also just up/down/etc… compose files to individually pull new images, test things, disable a service, and apply config updates without affecting another container at all.
I even keep my docker config files in a seperate directory so I can backup the docker composes in a second over the network.
I started by using a single mariaDB instance with multiple databases, but now I see the same benefits from moving to one database container per compose file that needs it to make it even more flexible so I don’t need to start up mariadb and redis before all of my containers.
File permission problems? Down the compose that needs it, fix it, re-up it without losing any uptime for other services and never having to use docker commands kludged together.
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