Solved IPTV LAN port on AiMesh node

[Tech9]

Asus may eventually fix this issue in newer models running 3006 firmware with port VLAN control on nodes.

 

[Terepin]

So I got myself TP-Link TL-SG105E. The problem is I cannot make it work. Either I am too stupid, or routers cannot route VLANs.
Here is what I need to achieve with switch being before router:
VLAN1: switch WAN/IPTV/router WAN
VLAN2: router LAN/PC/AiMesh node

I thought that simply assigning switch ports to respective VLANs would work, but while IPTV worked just fine, everything else was dead.

 

[Tech9]

or routers cannot route VLANs

Your new ZenWiFi BD4 runs on 3006 firmware, but doesn't have user manageable VLAN support. Entry-level products have guest network presets only or what Asus calls Smart Home Master. Whatever is preset in firmware is the only option available.

 

[Terepin]

So I managed to make it work. And then realized two things:
1. I need 8-port switch.
2. This TP-Link switch is cheap crap. It was literally sh*tting itself trying to maintain multicast connection to STB while utilizing all 5 ports. Now I know why it costs only 22€.

 

[Terepin]

I did it! Took me a while to figure it out, but I did it. Zyxel's web GUI is a lot more easier to understand than TP-Link's. If anyone is interested how it looks like:

1: ISP
2: STB
3: Router WAN
4-8: Home network

 

[ColinTaylor]

Thanks for the update. I'm having a hard time visualising the physical placement of the hardware, can you describe that?

You said you only have a single cable going to an AiMesh node and you wanted the STB connected to this node. Where is the switch located, next to the router or next to the AiMesh node?

 

[Terepin]

Cabling will be redone with thin ethernet cable to ease the tension. Ports on the switch are 1-8 from left to right. Black goes into the router's WAN port, purple goes from router's LAN port into the switch in VLAN2. My PC and the AiMesh is connected into it.

 

[Tech9]

This TP-Link switch is cheap crap

It's in Easy Smart category products with perhaps limited functionality. The cheapest out there indeed.