stingraze - 2023-08-31 10:49 PM
I also have experiences using NETGEAR's WiFi router, and the design was really cool (looked a bit like stealth fighters like F-117).
As for firmwares, I've never tried it out.
Yes! Those are cool looking for sure. I'm on a router craze lately apparently. And yeah, I find networking vaguely confusing for me other than what I figure out works for me.
C:Amie - 2023-09-01 6:23 AM
Ignoring the ability to power them down, you can do all of this on one router using WRT or Fresh Tomato I would imagine.
Usually you can setup multiple SSID's and have different VLAN's and security configured on each. If it can do the routing for the VLAN's then your main router doesn't need to support VLAN's at all, otherwise, yes, using VLAN isolation is a problem.
I have a CCNA, so Cisco isn't a problem, but you don't need to go that complex. Any old enterprise layer 3 switch can do it and the routing, or if you have an old PC, laptop and a couple of network cards/USB NIC's you can install pfSense on it and use that to setup VLAN isolation and allow access to the internet.
Yeah, I figured out Routers 2 & 3 do support VLANs natively with the third party router firmware. But I'm content that I got my weird setup working.
Do you have any thoughts to add on how I have it setup?
I may do some advanced features like only enable internet during certain times
(the firmware lets me customize all of these feartures
)
Or I may just get a switch that turns them on on off.
By the way, as always, thank you both for your help.