I had some questions answered in another thread about routers, but I thought this might be worth starting from scratch. The scenario is that I would like to check on the best way to set up with ...

Not all my network switches supported PoE, and I didn't want to drag cabling across rooms and beyond to make the most of this ...

As will become evident shortly, I'm not really all that knowledgeable when it comes to networking. I can set up a basic home network, but that's about it ...