Wired Home Router vs Digital TV\Decoder - Newbie

[Garath]

Hello,

I'm looking to upgrade my home network (Gigabit).

What I wish to accomplish is to connect my ISP Cable modem to a small 'wired-only' router which again is connected to an Gigabit 16-port smart switch. To finish things off, a centrally placed AP will be connected to the switch in addition with all of the other LAN cables.

What I have so far is an 'UniFi AP AC Lite (2.4-5GHz Dual Radio) and a TL-SG1016DE (16-port Gigabit smart switch), and thus I'm just lacking a\the router.

Being a noob, I already did some homeworking concerning VLAN's (IEEE 802.1q)\Trunk\ Subnets...

However I'm wondering if it would be possible to configure a VLAN to use DHCP client and thus receiving an IP from the WAN-ISP (maybe via bridging?). This because the TV-Decoder requires an ISP-IP.

Routers I'm currently looking at are the Linksys 'LRT214' and Ubiquiti 'EdgeRouter Lite 3'.

Many thanks for any feedback whatsoever.

 

[System Error Message]

Yes you could but it would be better to seperate your LAN and WAN cables to your router mainly for performance reasons but it is also because if your port fails than you dont lose LAN connectivity.

 

[Garath]

Yes you could but it would be better to seperate your LAN and WAN cables to your router mainly for performance reasons but it is also because if your port fails than you dont lose LAN connectivity.

Thank you 'System Error Message' , so correct me if I'm wrong, I'm better of using one eth-port for LAN related traffic and use another eth-port for my WAN\ISP-IP side... what about which small router I should use, any suggestions... or are the 'Linksys 'LRT214' and Ubiquiti 'EdgeRouter Lite 3' OK?

 

[System Error Message]

The ERL is better except that it starts having problems if you try to update it. Technically with the ERL you do not need to do this since you could just connect both WANs straight to it and just use your switch for LAN only unlike other consumer routers that only have 1 WAN port directly connected to CPU.

 

[Garath]

The ERL is better except that it starts having problems if you try to update it. Technically with the ERL you do not need to do this since you could just connect both WANs straight to it and just use your switch for LAN only unlike other consumer routers that only have 1 WAN port directly connected to CPU.

Indeed the ERL would be my safest bet. However I think I wasn't clear on the WAN-IP side of things.

The issue is:

• I have 1 x cable modem which provides me with 1 x WAN cable.
  
  
• ISP provides me with 2 'till 3 WAN DHCP IP's (not static IP's) on this 1 x WAN cable.

I can configure a port to act as WAN with DHCP client setting, but what about the my Digital TV Decoder? Knowing I only have 1 x WAN cable.

I could create a VLAN for it or use a specific port, but how do I configure that...

Many thanks for the assist.

 

[System Error Message]

Now i see, you're just taking the wrong approach. All you have to do is connect the ethernet port of the modem to the ERL and just set it up to have 3 IP address. Technically i wouldnt do this with ubiquiti unless you are using PPPOE because unlike mikrotik, ubiquiti cannot just give many IPs to NICs.

On my mikrotik router i have a single interface bridging all ports and VPN. The interface has 1 static IP address and 1 DHCP IP address so it is both LAN and WAN but this is because my ISP does the NAT and such. On ubiquiti this setup is impossible because they purposely didnt allow it in order to be more noob friendly. So to have more than 1 IP address on the ERL you will need more than 1 interface which could be virtual ethernet since you dont need to bridge, or it would be PPP related. You dont need to use VLANs or such on the switch because theres nothing your switch can do to help you in this case. If you need VLANs, configure it on the ERL.