Where to place a switch?

[noah]

Hi all, been away from all this for quite a while but would really appreciate a spot of advice please.

I'm setting up a wired network as I'm sick of wireless for streaming around a house. I 'm on virgin so rely on their supplied router/modem for modem duties on which I turn off the WiFi. My router of choice is an Apple Time Capsule (the newer 802.11ac one, basically an airport extreme) which I run bridged as it seems to get upset without this.

I'm going to need a couple of switches so I've bought some TP-Link gigabit ones (5 port and 8 port). My question, really, is where should I put these in the network?

Physically the neatest solution is:

Virgin modem --> both switches

With the Time capsule coming off the Virgin box, the PC and NAS coming off the 5-port switch, and the TV, hifi streamer and Apple TV coming off the 8-port switch.



Is this ok? I was concerned about not having the switches come off the time capsule but I guess if it's bridged then the Virgin router is doing all of the routing anyway? Would it be better for the switches to come off the Time Capsule?

Many thanks for your time,

Noah

[shaithis]

I dont trust the virgin box at all and would do the following:

Virgin in bridged mode -> Time capsule as router ->

I would then hang the NAS and both switches off of the capsule.

[noah]

OK, great. Should be easy to do.

Thanks for the advice.