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  1. Seth Harman

    Seeking clarity for Guest Network Pro/VLANs

    That's not what I'm saying. It appears the assumption by a lot of people (including me, initially) was having 3006 firmware automatically meant the routers with it have GNP/VLAN capability and that turned out to not be the case. There doesn't seem to be any obvious rationale why a given router...
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    Seeking clarity for Guest Network Pro/VLANs

    Thanks but that's what I described in my original post and exactly what I'm trying to get clarity on, is it a hardware limitation or just product positioning by Asus. It's not clear at this point if the capability has to do with the firmware or not. I believe you've participated in some of...
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    Seeking clarity for Guest Network Pro/VLANs

    Maybe, but is that the case here? I remember awhile ago there were certain Asus routers that had hardware AES-NI so if you were doing VPNs at that time it made sense to buy one of those specific models. Is this another one of those situations where it's a hardware limitation?
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    Seeking clarity for Guest Network Pro/VLANs

    After participating in a few threads regarding Guest Network Pro/VLANs I've discovered I'm still a bit confused as to what Asus is doing. In regards to VLANs here's what Asus says: 1). By creating a Guest network pro, a VLAN will be created as well in VLAN settings. 2). VLAN supported models...
  5. Seth Harman

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.4 is now available

    Do you know what the limit is? I have 30 clients with reserved DHCP addresses on my IoT VLAN.
  6. Seth Harman

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.4 is now available

    That's exactly where you do it, I have a whole mess of WiFi clients with manual DHCP assignments on my IoT VLAN.
  7. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    The reason is if you plug the managed switch into one of the node's LAN ports you can take whatever wired devices you want on VLANs, plug them into the managed switch LAN ports, tag them with the VLANs you want to assign, and the node will pass those VLAN tags all the way to the router...
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    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/105250 you'll want to look at Post #5. I also found this which was useful information specific to TP-Link link managed switches as for some reason they say Tagged/Untagged instead of Trunk/Access in the management interface...
  9. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    So assuming I'm correct, I'd argue having less hops for the backhaul is not only more efficient/clean but eliminates the possibility that any configuration issues on the managed switch will cause the node to disconnect like @jksmurf described. I know the pain, when I wasn't fully dialed in on...
  10. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    Assuming you haven't setup any firewall rules that allows a given VLAN to access the main LAN wouldn't tagging devices connected to the switch with anything other than VLAN ID 1 prevent that anyway?
  11. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    @jksmurf By the way, maybe I misunderstood your previous post but when you added the managed switch to the mix did you plug the AiMesh node into the managed switch and then run an uplink from the managed switch to the main router? If so, I'm curious why you did that instead of plugging the...
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    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    Yeah, they're dirt cheap and I've had no issues with them so I think they're a great value for the price if you need to add on VLAN functionality. I didn't know anything about VLANs when I bought them so for the first day trying to get them configured properly really messed up my brain as I just...
  13. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    Based on the list of Asus devices that support VLAN it appears to be significantly less expensive to buy a few managed switches to connect to your nodes rather than replace your nodes (the managed switches I use are $18 USD at Amazon). As far as size goes the 8-port switches are pretty small so...
  14. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    Luckily managed switches are really cheap these days so if you need that functionality and it's not available from your nodes it isn't that big of a deal.
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    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    It appears from your signature that you're running Merlin on your AiMesh nodes. I wonder if installing it on one my nodes would yield a different result.
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