Hello! I have Telekom 150mbs fiber optic, with EdgeRouterX. But my network is expanding and more used, so I want to get 300mbs. I was looking to upgrade the router, looking around GL-MT6000, but I don't need wifi on the router (doesn't hurt, though). Grok suggested MikroTik RB5009UG+S+IN, I have never heard of this. Is it good?
I have 4 VLANS: one for my family, one for the guests in B&B with portal (with bandwidth limitation, currently 4mbs), one for 5 girls in the dorm, without portal, one for water detectors. Usage: one online teacher, one graphic designer, the others are doing normal things, probably attending online classes or video-chatting with their family.
If it works well, I might expand more to cover the other B&B (using gigacopper G.hn modem, since telephone lines are there between two B&B's), and get 600mbs to cover everything with just one contract.
Looks pretty good to me, nice device. An alternative would be to get a switch + some kinda pi device. A rockchip 35xx based device with a 2.5g port would maybe be similar to this type setup.
For the switch you probably won't end up running Openwrt on it, switches that let you run Openwrt on them are the next bump up, use more power and from the looks of it to me Openwrt support isn't quite cooked yet. So you generally have a choice of a realtek 83xx based device or a maxlinear MXL8xx based device. The maxlinear chip is a bit better spec and has 1 extra sfp port but web interface is maybe more awkward, but it works good except you can't set the management to work via tagged. Power use is pretty good with the switches, around 2-3 watts idle with 4 devices plugged in for me.
So like XikeStor SKS3200-8E2X + NanoPi R5C would be an example competition.
Hallo! Thank you all for your replies! @wilsonyan NanoPi R5C looks good. But with the switch
doesn't this mean that it's not going to work with nanoPi if you have more than one vlan? (because the only one LAN port has to be a trunk port)
On the other hand, I have Netgear GS308E, I suppose this is good enough?
@Summit48 EdgeRouter 4 seems pretty expensive in Germany. GL-MT6000 is a bit cheaper with similar spec.... What is Mikro Tik fees ? I use hEX Lite behind EdgeRouterX, with RouterOS, I hope I'm not going to be asked to pay a fee to keep using it! (I hate it though....only because I don't know the simple commands so I have to look up all the time)
@frollic there are a lot of Fujitsu S920 used and very cheap. Is it like a mini computer that many people seem to use as a router? How can I put quad port NIC together with a computer?
It just means to access the web config for the switch it has to be untagged on a port, but you can still run other tagged networks through that port so technically it's more of a configuration annoyance in that when you set up a trunk port if you want to access the switch web config you have to use the base untagged device.
With 300mb internet and most people ? Probably is, unless you have a lot of machines with 2.5g ports or something.
But I want the management VLAN to be also accessible at the APs', where multiple SSID's are set up using multiple VLANs. Is it possible to make this way: port to the router: vlan1 untagged, vlan 2, 3, 4, tagged, PVID 1, outgoing: all tagged, PVID something else (or 1, if it has to be), and access the switch over Vlan1 ?
In fact, I'm not even used to mixing tagged and untagged vlans on one port: I set up either multiple vlans, all tagged (with PVID something else, so that nobody breaks in), or a single untagged vlan.
Except that, vlan1 often comes as factory default and I cannot get rid of it or change it, so I just let it stay and don't use it.
Did you mean that, the connection between the switch and the router can be all tagged, but then the access point I can use to manage the switch should be connected to the switch over an untagged port? (e.g. a very cheap access point?) Or just sit in front of the switch whenever you want to see the config? And keep an untagged port always free for that purpose?
If that's the case, it must be a very inconvenient.... why someone would make a managed switch like that?
How to explain... ok so say you have your eth0 and then for a vlan say you have eth0.10, what i'm saying is to access the web config for the switch, you have to set up on the eth0 directly, so add an address like 192.168.10.100 on eth0 so you can access the web config on 192.168.10.12 so you can still have the port be a trunk port with eth0.10 eth0.20 eth0.whatever all with their own addresses and it's all separated properly as it should but eth0 plain is the only way to access the web config.
Its not that bad really it's not like the config is accessible everywhere on every port, it's just that any port you set to be for management, it has to be untagged for the management. Not a deal breaker for me.
I still don't understand it, because when I set up eth0.10 etc, then I don't use eth0 directly anymore, I don't know how to use eth0 when there are vlans....
But, in the end, I found a very good deal of GL-MT6000 (about 100 Euro), so I decided to buy it for now, to replace my EdgeRouter. Having wifi doesn't hurt, may come out convenient.
Study on my G.hn expansion plan has developed meanwhile, I figured perhaps it's not that good idea to cover everything with just one contract, so I will probably stop at 300mbs.
If you can buy it only from the Netherlands, shipping would be quite a bit, the webpage is only in Dutch (and costs 69Euro, not much cheaper), it would be complicated in case of Retoure etc.... too exotic to me.
Right, sorry;; Because, on Luci, you have to go to "bridge VLAN filtering", then you assign vlans on each port. Then they are all VLANs, namely eth0.10 etc, and eth0 pure isn't an option. Perhaps there is a way to do it using CLI?
