Device recommendation + 400Mbps/1Gbps question

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@Grub

I am thinking of getting something like a managed switch to expand the number of ports further, and connect this switch to the fourth LAN port of the belkin. Is it possible to setup this switch and the belkin in a way that I reserve one of the switch's LAN ports for the Home network with untagged Home PVID, while all other ports automatically correspond to other specific VLANs (so similar to the current 4th Belkin port)? As a concrete example, the switch should be plugged into the Belkin, and any device connecting to the switch's first port should belong to the IOT VLAN, any device connecting to the switch's 2nd port should belong to Guest, etc. whereas the last port is reserved for trusted Home/Lan devices? How should I setup the Belkin and the Switch in this case?

That is the whole purpose (at least one of the major ones) of any (smart-)managed switch, so yes - you can assign VLANs freely among the physical switch ports as needed/ desired.

Even if running OpenWrt on your managed switch isn't on your mind right now, I'd suggest looking at

realtek

and
https://svanheule.net/switches/models
to retain the option of doing so.

@Grub

I am thinking of upgrading my internet to either 400 Mbps or 1 Gbps. Is my current hardware (linked above) sufficient? If not for 1 Gbps how about 400 Mbps?

400 MBit/s should be doable, 1 GBit/s might be slightly more on the fence - depending on your additional requirements (e.g. VPN, SQM, PPPoE, etc.).

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