Dear all,
I love that these forums are so active, but having said that, there is also so much information that I'm feeling swamped, so apologies for starting a new thread.
Our home network has been running on an older Buffalo wireless router (running DD-WRT), which has slowly been getting sick. About a year back the WiFi was so unreliable that I turned it off and have been using a UniFi AP-Pro, which has been working well. However, the Buffalo is still suffering and even daily restarts are not helping. So I think it's time to upgrade.
Internet is delivered to our apartment via a fiber modem. Then I would like to split up the network inside our apartment into four parts:
- Our main network – computers, printers, phones etc.
- separate network for servers (Raspberry Pi's) running website/mail.
- Internet of Things network – less trusted things wanting Internet connectivity
- Guest WiFi
Ideally, I would like that devices on the main network can reach the IoT devices, and the Pi servers, but not that they can call back into the main network (or sniff any traffic from there) and the guest WiFi should be separated too.
At the moment I am thinking that the Edge Router 5 port with PoE could be what I'm looking for. I have a couple of Netgear switches that I was thinking could be connected up behind the EdgeMAX router for each of the main network and the Pi's.
The existing UniFi AP can be plugged directly into this, configured with three networks, home, guest, and IoT. But are these able to be separated, by VLAN or something similar to ensure that they only forward traffic onto the relevant ports on the Edge Router?
So firstly, does this sound like a reasonable, or even achievable approach?
Looking through the online documentation I would appear that you are able to configure 2 LANs, but in my use case I'd want more. Is it just that the Wizards can not support this and I'd need to go via the CLI interface, or is it not possible at all?
I do like the dashboard that I've configured for the UniFi AP, will the Edge Router work with this GUI for a unified view of the network?
Is there anything else I should be looking at? Or anything I should be aware of?
Thanks for all your feedback and input.