Mesh system which allows multiple bandwidth limited guest networks?

Kashinoda

Kashinoda

Kashinoda

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My mum is lodging out two rooms in her house and I want to make sure there's no hassle over the internet.

We're ditching Virgin and getting CityFibre 1gig (Vodafone). My plan currently is to:
  • Replace the stock Vodafone router with my spare Draytek Vigor 2860AC.
  • Create multiple VLANs and use QOS to limit the bandwith on each.
  • Install an ethernet socket in each room and provide a basic AC router each from ASUS or whatever.
I'm starting to think it might be less hassle if I just install a mesh system, but I'm struggling to find something which will do the trick.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
UniFi products support meshing and can have multiple guest networks (via up to four SSIDs) with each tagged to a different VLAN ID.
 
Simon42 said:
Does the Draytek 2860 have enough performance for 1Gbps generally, and does City Fibre use PPPoE as that would add even more load?

I know the 2860 has hardware acceleration depending on options but it's specs shows firewall performance as 300Mbps and needing to turn off QoS, bandwidth limit etc to get hardware acceleration.

https://www.draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-hardware-acceleration-tips?return=18954819
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Yeah looks like the actual ticket would be a 2865, I hadn't considered WAN throughput. Thanks
 
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Kashinoda said:
Yeah looks like the actual ticket would be a 2865, I hadn't considered WAN throughput. Thanks
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If City Fibre is using PPPoE for your area then also check if that is hardware offloaded on the 2865 as that could limit performance as PPPoE is otherwise usually handled by a single core and needs some grunt for 1Gbps. You can find lots of performance issues reported for PPPoE with various routers than can do DHCP based 1Gbps without issue but the CPU overhead of PPPoE is too much.
 
Simon42 said:
If City Fibre is using PPPoE for your area then also check if that is hardware offloaded on the 2865 as that could limit performance as PPPoE is otherwise usually handled by a single core and needs some grunt for 1Gbps. You can find lots of performance issues reported for PPPoE with various routers than can do DHCP based 1Gbps without issue but the CPU overhead of PPPoE is too much.
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CF don't use anything, the ISP determines if DHCP or PPPoE is used, Vodafone and TT for example are PPPoE, Yayzi is DHCP, all are VLAN tagged though.
 
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