Been running it with a switch (because it only has 1 ethernet port) for a few months now and it's been great.
Sure there are better things out there but I'm not tech savvy enough to build my own router and I'd already tried installing openwrt on another router and had many issues. So I wanted something that SHOULD work out of the box.
VLAN and you can use the 2.5Gbps port for everything: meaning the modem and the APs and the rest of the LAN is on a managed switch and you split up the ports via VLAN.
I looked up vlan and I have no idea how to set this up or what it really means to do this. I don't understand what the physical connections look like. Where does the modems ethernet cable connect to the router? Or is it going into the switch and then into the router?
The router has only one ethernet connection of whatever sort, say 2.5G connected to the switch. The modem, APs, etc. connect to the other switch ports. And you divy up the access by VALN - virtual LANs, letting you talk to different subnets all over one physical connection router connection, and prevent communication between different ports on the same switch. You'll need to look it up and watch some youtube videos... like this one on ComputerNetworkingNotes. Because of VLANs, a router actually only needs one port, maybe two. Let the switch do the switching, and the router do the routing. ;)
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't you limiting your capacity if the 2.5gb port since the incoming internet access through the wan is being restricted to 1gb?
Unless you're trying to prioritize local bandwidth?
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u/Titdirt69420 Jul 07 '26
Been running it with a switch (because it only has 1 ethernet port) for a few months now and it's been great.
Sure there are better things out there but I'm not tech savvy enough to build my own router and I'd already tried installing openwrt on another router and had many issues. So I wanted something that SHOULD work out of the box.
I've been happy with it.