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Aaaaah, there is a thought, thank you, I will investigate this.If you have good wifi, you may setup a good repeater with ethernet port, and connect the ethernet port to the NAS.
Keep this repeater as close to your router as possible. You should use a repeater in repeater mode, not in accespoint mode.
Yes, the router 192.168.1.1, the iMac WIFI 192.168.1.19 and the Synology 192.168.1.128 are on the same subnet 255.255.255.0.This is going wrong again.
You say that the NAS is connected to the iMac using an ethernet cable. That is OK, BUT because there is no DHCP server running on the Synology you will have to give both the Mac and the Synology an IP address that is in the same subnet so that they can reliably talk to each other.
Those addresses could both be 192.168.1.x addresses, BUT if that happens to be the same subnet as the router is serving you will need to watch out for conflicting IP addresses issued by the DHCP server in the router.
If the router's DHCP server also issues IP addresses in the 192.168.1.x range (very common) then there is a strong chance you will have another device picking up 192.168.1.128 and then you will have two devices on the network with the same address and the Mac will not be able to reliably connect to the Synology.
You need to check the iMac's WiFi connection to see what IP address that has, and find out the address of the router (gateway). If you need to persist with this approach, which is quite honestly a kludge rather than anything else, then I would recommend using a different subnet than the subnet that the router serves, and probably accept that the ethernet network and the WiFi network are not connected together.
Your Synology will however need an internet connection in order to get updates - is there no way of physically connecting the Synology to the router? It is very unusual to have access to a WiFi network and not have physical access to the router.
You CAN enable internet sharing via the iMac if you want to pursue this path but it is all getting quite complicated. I would Google "Macintosh Internet Sharing" if you want to pursue this. It is not terribly difficult but maybe not worth pursuing unless you are an advanced user, as you will have to handle the routing between the different network connections.
MUCH BETTER would be to plug an ethernet cable from both the iMac and the Synology into the router so that they connect directly by ethernet and are both set up on the same subnet for interconnection AND for connection to the internet.
There are also plenty of other ways of doing this. Just saying!
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