okay so I am new to networking and don’t really know what I’m doing. but I plan on building a router out of an old computer using pfSense. now I also want to go wireless and I am wearing my whole house with cat 6 so I will be having a 24 port switch. Now, would the set up go: modem>pfsense router>switch>wireless router, or would it go modem>pfsense router>wireless router>switch? I’m thinking that in the first configuration, the wireless router would work as a broadcast? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Your first inclination is the correct one. The wireless router, since you're going to use it like an access point, should be subtended from the switch.