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Looking to boost your home network as more IoT devices come online?

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frog2go
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08-12-2022, 12:37 AM
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New to doing networking, want to improve my networking. This is planned setup. Personal Laptop, Phones and Tablet are all able to roam between Main Router, Access Point 1 and Access Point 2 via 5Ghz WiFi. IOTs devices are either connected to Access Point 1, Access Point 2 and Main Router via 2.4Ghz. They are able to roam between these 3 if any one of them goes down. So I want to isolate into 3 to 4 networks but all of them are getting internet from the same modem. Just want to ask if it is possible. Network 1: Personal Laptop, Phones Network 2: IOT Devices Network 3: Smart TV and Printer etc... Network 4: Anything that connects via Guest Router Network 1 will be able to access 2, 3 and 4. But not the other way round. Do I make sense? If the above is too complex to implement. Cause IOT is using the same access point as my devices... Then Can I have 2 network instead? (This is what I have right now... but..) Network 1: Personal Laptop, Phones, IOT, Smart TV and Printer... Network 2: Anything that connects via Guest Router I am able to achieve this now. But I want Network 1 able to access Network 2 to do configuration easily or future isolation network devices. However I don't want Network 2 to be able to access my Network 1 stuff. I tried set up a Static Route on Guest Router: Destination IP: 10.10.0.0 Subnet: 255.255.0.0 Gateway : 172.16.16.30 (No device, Just find a IP to direct it to) But I am still able to access Network 1 routers settings... which means it can ping all the devices in Network 1. Is there anything that I have done wrong? Does getting a TPLink SG108E Smart Switch that is capable of doing VLAN get the job done? Also it would be good if i can limit the speed coming out of Guest Router so that it will not congest my main router. Any tips or recommendation for this network plan as well?
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frog2go
08-12-2022, 12:37 AM #1

New to doing networking, want to improve my networking. This is planned setup. Personal Laptop, Phones and Tablet are all able to roam between Main Router, Access Point 1 and Access Point 2 via 5Ghz WiFi. IOTs devices are either connected to Access Point 1, Access Point 2 and Main Router via 2.4Ghz. They are able to roam between these 3 if any one of them goes down. So I want to isolate into 3 to 4 networks but all of them are getting internet from the same modem. Just want to ask if it is possible. Network 1: Personal Laptop, Phones Network 2: IOT Devices Network 3: Smart TV and Printer etc... Network 4: Anything that connects via Guest Router Network 1 will be able to access 2, 3 and 4. But not the other way round. Do I make sense? If the above is too complex to implement. Cause IOT is using the same access point as my devices... Then Can I have 2 network instead? (This is what I have right now... but..) Network 1: Personal Laptop, Phones, IOT, Smart TV and Printer... Network 2: Anything that connects via Guest Router I am able to achieve this now. But I want Network 1 able to access Network 2 to do configuration easily or future isolation network devices. However I don't want Network 2 to be able to access my Network 1 stuff. I tried set up a Static Route on Guest Router: Destination IP: 10.10.0.0 Subnet: 255.255.0.0 Gateway : 172.16.16.30 (No device, Just find a IP to direct it to) But I am still able to access Network 1 routers settings... which means it can ping all the devices in Network 1. Is there anything that I have done wrong? Does getting a TPLink SG108E Smart Switch that is capable of doing VLAN get the job done? Also it would be good if i can limit the speed coming out of Guest Router so that it will not congest my main router. Any tips or recommendation for this network plan as well?

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Tijeyd
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08-12-2022, 01:17 AM
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First, you need separate SSIDs for each wireless network. If your APs allow it, you can use VLANs to manage them. I’m not sure about ASUS firewall features, but you’d need to set up rules like IoT-LAN > WAN and LAN > IoT-LAN. An unmanaged switch won’t work because it can’t handle wired devices on specific networks. You might need a different device to run the firewall.
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Tijeyd
08-12-2022, 01:17 AM #2

First, you need separate SSIDs for each wireless network. If your APs allow it, you can use VLANs to manage them. I’m not sure about ASUS firewall features, but you’d need to set up rules like IoT-LAN > WAN and LAN > IoT-LAN. An unmanaged switch won’t work because it can’t handle wired devices on specific networks. You might need a different device to run the firewall.

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