Improving Network Performance & Security (Vlans, Mesh etc)

[kuriSu-kUN]

Hi, thank you for your reply!

@psherman

You probably don't want mesh... most people confuse this for a roaming setup. Mesh involves wireless backhaul connections, but you don't need that because you said your home is wired. Therefore, you simply want a setup that will allow roaming (which is a client side process anyway), and you can use the wired connections for the APs (which will almost always be faster than a wireless/mesh backhaul).

What I would like to achieve with the wifi between router and APs is a seamless transition between them, the problem that I'm facing now is that from the main router to the APs and vice versa, all of the clients never transits because there is this thin line of coverage that they refuse to drop and I have to manually switch off /on the wifi on my mobile for example in order to switch.

From what I understood Mesh makes sure that this transition is fast and without the client having to re authenticate...
In essence, you are right! Roaming is what I'm after, and there is an option in OpenWRT called 802.11r Fast Transition, maybe if I have APs with OpenWRT and enable this, it will do what I'm looking for?

@psherman

Yes, absolutely possible.

Don't try to implement everything at once.. Start with the main router (WRT1200AC). Configure a single new VLAN (so you'd have 2 LANs and a WAN) and verify that it is working as expected on the 1200AC. Then, using what you learned with the first new network, you can add the others (one at a time). Then you can work on one of your APs, and so on.

Yes one step at a time.
I'll keep this post as an ongoing project so in the future anyone who is interesting in something similar can have a some sort of guide...

Things to-do.
Upgrade my router. (Now I'm on David's latest build (which is no so latest anymore...)) I'll go with the PureFusion build.

Create multiple WIFI SSIDs each one on its own domain and see if that is working.
Then, we'll take it from there...