Hello :)I'll be moving to a new apartment in a couple of weeks. I have a pretty good idea of how I should setup my network, but just wanted to sense-check my thoughts.The apartment has four ethernet points wired back to a comms box in a wardrobe which houses the ONT. I have two routers on hand - a HG659b and an Archer C2.Currently we are with BigPipe so we use the Archer C2 (we had some problems with the HG659b which was originally my parents). We are thinking of switching to either 2Degrees (because of the sign on discount & reputation on GZ) or Spark (because of the sign-on bonuses and netflix/lightbox etc.) but I understand the Archer C2 wouldn't work with the ONT because of VLAN tagging? My thoughts are that I would put the HG659b in the comms box and turn wifi off on it and use the four ethernet points on it to wire the rest of the house.In the lounge I would put the Archer C2 and use it as a wireless access point for phones etc. and as a switch for the TV and gaming consoles. With the other ethernet points, I'd plug my pc into one of them and could expand the network if required with the others with extra access points (I also have an old DSL-N55U and some other old Huawei router I could use)I know it's generally not recommended to use a router as an access point, but I am just flatting, it's not a huge apartment and I have these on hand anyway. A few questions:Does this sound like a reasonable approach?Would the devices connected via wifi to the access point be on the same network as my PC which is connected to the wall ethernet points?Any other considerations?Thanks in advance for your help!
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