Provided the wiring is home ran, and not daisy chained, it should work. You’ll have to double check the terminations at each wall plate jack as well, when you do crimp on RJ45s. And do yourself a favor while doing it… Label things, for easy identification later. Will help troubleshooting down the road, and any odd connections you may think up, or add.
So yes, your diagram does make sense. As others mentioned, VLANs depends on how many rules you want to program. Personally, I have home automation on it’s own VLAN anyways, just for security.
You mention “reliable” here… Where, the switch fails, then what? My home setup, off the router, I have 2 switches, and my NVR connected to it. One switch is hardwired network. The other is just the wireless access points. For redundantcy, I designed my network this way, so I can work on the hard wired, and wireless works. Or she complains the wireless network isn’t working, I can just reboot the switch remotely, and not affect her hardwired work laptop, or hardwired apple TV she might be watching.
To further redundantcy, I have a Wattbox, which reboots the modem if we loose internet, as well as I have it scheduled to reboot the modem once a week for redundantcy sake. The switches are on this, so I can reboot them as well. I’m lazy, and I don’t want to go downstairs to reboot this stuff LOL. Ubiquiti has similar power management products.
Really designing a network though, think, “what do I have to do, if this fails?” as well as “is there anything I can do to minimize network downtime?”. Little things make a huge difference in how you manage your network. The less time you have to spend fixing, or troubleshooting it? The more time you can enjoy the little things, like having the issue resolved already, instead of having to get the call of “the internet isn’t working”
Check that the RJ45 is seated correctly in the port on the router. I mention this, cause this is the “are you freaken kiddding me?” Scenario, that you could spend hours troubleshooting.
Next, plug a computer/laptop into that port. Verify it’s working. Then? Test the cable run by the switch. Make sure you can get connection at the switch side.
If all that passes, all these tests, just assume your router hates your taste in switches.
Comes down to how you want people to access them. VLANs and Firewall rules are for restricting access. So that’s how you should approach this.
From what I can tell, you have switches with Layer 2 capability, which doesn’t help much… You’d want Layer 3 capability formost to try and seperate things in this network properly, and pass VLANs how you’d need for Firewall rules.
So how I would set them up? This is the definition of a mesh network, and not much can be segregated, due to the capability of your switches…
Hardwire the cameras. You want reliability, that’s the only way.
I make Fiber Optic cables that get dropped in the ocean… Hardwired networks are not going away, and if anything, they keep expanding.
As far as DSL goes, yes, that is dated, using the existing lines, which many companies will advertize as their “high speed internet” in more remote areas. Wireless is faster then DSL, as is Satalite. But the only wireless that can compete with fiber optic cables, is quantum entanglement, and that technology is probably 20 years out, to perfecting for consumer use, at minimum. And cell towers are still connected to the data network by fiber optic cables.
Incompetence exists in this world, and there are people that don’t question if they’re wrong. Just be careful, as incompetence can be contagious. Never under estimate the power of incompetant people in numbers, as that’s how the United States governement exists.
Just put it on a seperate network, with no internet connection. Use a server as a passthrough, so you have control. Stay away from anythibg cloud based. Pretty easy stuff honestly.