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Hi, apologies for this very ignorant question:

I'm overhauling my whole home network, partly because my current router/AP are both not supported any longer, mostly to get faster speed between my laptop and NAS.

Luckily my walls have ethernet cables in them. I'm going to have my router downstairs - thinking of getting a UniFi Dream Router 7 because I'm looking to setup VLANs.

Upstairs in my office I was thinking of getting a Unifi Express 7 as a wireless access point (I don't need to mount anything and I'll have power right nearby so don't need PoE). My laptop won't need wireless since it will be wired, but my partner needs wireless for her laptop upstairs, which is why I want some kind of wireless AP connected by wired ethernet from the wall.

But I'll need some kind of switch to enable 10GbE between laptop and NAS (both are in my office upstairs, easy to connect by ethernet). If my laptop and NAS will be on the same VLAN, do I connect the switch to the wall and then the AP from the switch (along with the laptop and NAS), or do I connect the AP to the wall, connect the switch to that, and the laptop and the NAS to the switch? Does it even matter?

I guess even after doing some reading I'm still slightly unsure about VLANs, which is why I ask.

As for the switch, an unmanaged switch (say, a TL-SX105) should be fine, is that right?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi all,

I've done a lot of searching (also on this subreddit) and I still can't find any solutions I love...

I am totally overhauling various email addresses (moving to a different email service, shifting from POP to IMAP, combining certain email addresses, etc) so I want to essentially keep around my old TB accounts, all already downloaded (via POP), to reference in the future, but totally deactivated (i.e. I don't need them contacting a server to try to get messages). It's not sufficient to just uncheck options like "Check for new messages at startup" because I want to be able to still press Get Messages without annoying errors about failing to connect old servers, etc.

I've seen a lot of proposed workarounds here and elsewhere that just don't work. Does anyone else have a smart suggestion?

The best suggestion I've seen so far is just moving old accounts to subfolders Local Folders, but I've already run into some weird issues with that (including Sent, Trashes, and other folders doubled in filesize when I dragged them to Local Folders, for reasons I can't figure out yet).

Hi folks,

My partner has a macOS laptop and I'm trying to figure out how to help her back it up (not sync) to our Synology NAS.

She has "optimized storage" selected so that some files are only stubs pointing to a full file in iCloud. I read that TimeMachine doesn't really download those files automatically (ughhh) so in essence, TimeMachine and optimized storage are incompatible.

What about Synology Drive Client, does anyone know how the software approaches optimized storage, is there an option to actually auto download the full files? (I ask because I have used photo backup apps on iOS that do manage this auto download for you, even when iOS using optimized storage to iCloud).